severaltyn.
/ˈsɛvərəlti/ 1. The condition of being separate or distinct; separateness, distinctness, independence.
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the world > relative properties > relationship > difference > [noun]
diversitya1340
difference1340
variancec1374
distancea1382
unlikenessa1387
variationc1405
discrepation?a1425
distinction1435
severaltyc1449
unlikelinessc1450
dissemblance1463
unlikelihood1483
alteritya1500
indifferencec1503
discrepancea1522
dissimilitude1532
differency1542
variety1552
discernment1570
disparitya1575
discrepancy1579
otherness1587
discernance1592
imparity1608
disanalogy1610
disresemblance1622
dislikeness1623
diff1624
inconformity1625
irresemblance1628
variousness1628
odds1642
disparation1654
aliety1656
disparility1656
disparateness1659
severality1664
nonconformity1672
unconformableness1712
dissimilarity1715
differentness1727
differ1787
allogeneitya1834
otherwiseness1890
otherliness1937
diversion-
the world > relative properties > kind or sort > individual character or quality > [noun] > individuality or distinctness
severaltyc1449
severality1664
articulation1665
distinctness1668
distinctivenessa1680
distinctitya1834
distinctivity1836
distinguishableness1893
c1449 R. Pecock Repressor (1860) 50 Ȝit herfore tho craftis in thilk man ben not the lasse dyuerse, ne neuer the lasse kepen her seueralte in boundis and markis as in hem silf.
1571 A. Golding tr. J. Calvin Psalmes of Dauid with Comm. (lxxiv. 16) Insatiable covetousnes and ambition breaketh whatsoever severaltie [L. quicquid distinctionis] is made in the world.
1648 Bp. J. Hall Select Thoughts 269 He singles them out in a familiar kinde of severalty both of knowledg and respect.
1650 N. Ward Discolliminium 37 A respective severalty, that each Nation should operate separately.. in cases peculiar to their severall interests.
1679 T. Puller Moderation Church of Eng. (1843) 21 The several societies of Christian men, unto every of which the name of a Church is given, with addition betokening severalty, as the Church of Rome, Corinth, Ephesus, England.
1847 G. Grote Hist. Greece III. ii. x. 92 The original severalty and subsequent consolidation of the different portions of Attica.
1849 G. Grote Hist. Greece V. ii. xxxviii. 8 The discordant severalty of agents conspicuous in the Homeric theology.
a1882 T. H. Green Proleg. Ethics (1883) 31 Something other than the manifold things themselves which combines them without effacing their severalty.
2. in severalty [Anglo-Norman en severalte]
a. Law.
(a) Of land: (Held) in a person's own right without being joined in interest with another (opposed to joint-tenancy, coparcenary, and tenancy-in-common); (held) as private enclosed property (opposed to common). to know in severalty: = ‘to know one's several’: see several n. 2c.
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the mind > possession > owning > belong [verb (intransitive)] > have one's part of property distinguished
to know in severaltyc1475
to know one's part in several1592
to know one's several1598
the mind > possession > owning > belonging to one [phrase] > in individual ownership
in several1473
in severaltyc1475
society > law > legal right > right of possession or ownership > tenure of property > have tenure of property [verb (intransitive)] > hold by several tenure
to know in severaltyc1475
to know one's part in several1592
to know one's several1598
society > law > legal right > right of possession or ownership > tenure of property > [phrase] > by joint tenancy
in several1473
in severaltyc1475
separalty1567
c1475 Partenay 3640 Thi land shal be..Parted in partes..Neuer to-geders hold in seueralte.
1480 Cov. Leet Bk. 447 He kepeth diuerse pastures in seueralte, which owen to be comen.
1523 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Surueyeng ii. f. 2 And than is nat an acre so moche worthe as & it were in seueralty inclosed or in seuerall pasture.
1540 Act 32 Hen. VIII c. 1 §3 The same in three partes to be divided in certainety and by speciall divisions as it may be knowen in severaltie.
1581 Compendious Exam. Certayne Ordinary Complaints ii. f. 18v Tenaunts in common be not so good husbandes as when euery man hath his parte in seueralty.
1653 tr. J. Kitchin Courts Leet (ed. 2) 476 They are Tenants in severalty.
1766 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. II. 185 If two joint-tenants agree to part their lands, and hold them in severalty, they are no longer joint-tenants.
1808 C. Vancouver Gen. View Agric. Devon iv. 102 Coarse moor-land, lying in severalty.
1818 W. Cruise Digest Laws Eng. Real Prop. (ed. 2) I. 329 Not in the nature of dower, that is, in severalty, but in common with the heir.
1875 H. J. S. Maine Lect. Early Hist. Inst. iv. 101 The arable lands are held in severalty, while pasture and bog are in common.
1895 Strahan Law of Property (1908) 132 By partition is meant the dividing up of the joint estate among the joint tenants, who henceforth hold their individual shares in severalty.
(b) Const. to or for (the possessor).
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1523 Act 14 & 15 Hen. VIII c. 6 §1 Yt shalbe leafull to your said besecher [etc.]..to enclose the said olde Waye..and that frohensforthe to holde in Severaltie to them and to their Heires and Assignes to their owne use and profitt for ever..without any comon Waye or passage ther.
1652 P. Heylyn Cosmographie iii. sig. Ddd4v Every one..should..take as much ground in severalty for his own inheritance, as he could overcome.
b. Separately, apart from others, particularly.
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the world > relative properties > kind or sort > individual character or quality > individual [phrase] > individually or separately
by sundriesc1450
in particular1502
in severalty1588
in several1592
in severality1665
1588 A. Fraunce Lawiers Logike ii. iii. f. 89v If the same Logicall Doctor..should affirme the same of all the other kindes of causes specially and in seueralty.
1624 H. Wotton Elements Archit. i. 64 Hauing considered the precedent Appertions or Ouertures, in seueraltie according to their particular Requisites.
1768 A. Tucker Light of Nature Pursued I. ii. 286 That all should enjoy the produce of their skill and industry in severalty without interruption from others.
1893 H. D. Traill Social Eng. Introd. 17 It has seemed best to treat of each great department of our social life in severalty.
c. In or into several divisions or parts.
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the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > separation > action of dividing or divided condition > in or into parts [phrase]
in several1650
in severalty1824
the world > relative properties > wholeness > incompleteness > part of whole > [phrase] > in several parts or divisions
in severalty1868
1824 J. Davison Disc. Prophecy vi. iii. 388 Polytheism divided the world, and its own creed, in severalty; it set up its deities over particular regions.
1868 W. E. Gladstone Juventus Mundi viii. §12. 304 One group of these traditions..which when associated compose a nebula, appears before us in severalty, divided between the three individualities of Artemis, Persephonè, and Aphroditè.
3.
a. Land held by an individual not joined with other owners. Also, the condition of land so held; a state of being owned by individuals.
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the mind > possession > possessions > [noun] > real or immovable property > land > privately or individually owned land
severalc1460
scope1569
severalty1570
propriety1661
proprietorship1788
the mind > possession > possessions > [noun] > real or immovable property > land > privately or individually owned land > condition of
severalty1570
1570 J. Dee in H. Billingsley tr. Euclid Elements Geom. Math. Præf. sig. aij Which was, when..ground sold, were to be layd out: or (when disorder preuailed) that Commons were distributed into seueralties.
1766 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. II. ii. xii. 194 Estates in common can only be dissolved two ways: 1. By uniting all the titles and interests in one tenant..which brings the whole to one severalty: 2. By making partition between the several tenants in common, which gives them all respective severalties.
1801 Farmer's Mag. Nov. 400 Reducing all common and intermixed possessions into severalty.
1814 J. Shirreff Gen. View Agric. Shetland 179 Till land is placed in a state of severalty,..inclosures are seldom erected in any country.
1844 Min. Evid. Sel. Comm. Commons' Inclosure 27 It often happens that in these shifting severalties the occupier of lot one this year goes round the whole of the several lots in rotation.
1862 Merivale in Macmillan's Mag. July 265 Not inclosed from the waste, but merely converted from ‘common field’ into severalty.
b. attributive.
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1844 Min. Evid. Sel. Comm. Commons' Inclosure 27 After the crop has been removed, these lands become commonable to all the parties having a severalty right, and to no others.
1844 Min. Evid. Sel. Comm. Commons' Inclosure 27 The severalty crop.
1844 Min. Evid. Sel. Comm. Commons' Inclosure 27 Circumstances under which the severalty ownership of these lands shifts from time to time.
1892 Pall Mall Gaz. 30 May 6/2 A private arrangement between the lord, the severalty owners, and the owners of lammas rights.
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the world > relative properties > kind or sort > individual character or quality > [noun] > individuality or distinctness > separate or distinct thing or person
severalty1561
distinct1601
1561 T. Norton tr. J. Calvin Inst. Christian Relig. i. xiii. f. 37 Lette it not come in our myndes ones to imagine suche a Trinitie of Persons as may hold our thought withdrawen into seueralties [1562 seueralities].
1610 J. Healey tr. J. L. Vives in tr. St. Augustine Citie of God viii. vii. 309 The first apprehensions..nature hath giuen man, whence the knowledge of many great seueralties arise [L. vnde rerum multarum magnarumque oritur cognitio].
1637 P. Heylyn Briefe Answer Burton 163 These are the severalties contained in that generall head; and they relate either to preaching or to praying.
1640 Bp. J. Hall Episcopacie ii. vii. 124 Here is a manifest distinction betwixt the Pastor or Bishop, and those of his charge; and they are described by the severalties of their estates.
1667 E. Waterhouse Short Narr. Fire London 17 Many other Authors have given us severalties which summed up together, makes out such secret policies.
5. (See quot. 1867.)
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1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Severalty, the denomination under which disagreements respecting accounts amongst the part owners of a ship are referred, either to equity courts, or the common law.
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