signalityn.

1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica 224 Had they conceived any more then a bare signality in this Star,..they would not have computed from its Heliacall ascent which was of inferiour efficacy. View more context for this quotation

1896 A. H. Strong in E. H. Johnson Ezekiel Gilman Robinson ii. ii. 178 If the signality of the miracle be maintained, then it matters not, even if natural law itself be the perpetual working of God.

1905 L. W. Batten Hebrew Prophet vi. 119 The writer does not deny the signality of the wonders; but he asserts that they prove something very different from what their performers suppose.

1947 Amer. Jrnl. Psychol. 60 121 On the second trial the bell is already conditioned to a slight extent; it sounds more like a signal and this signality is registered still more strongly when food again comes along.

1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica i. xi. 44 That those two should make but one line in the booke of fate, and stand together in the great Ephemerides of God..may admit a Christian apprehension in the signality . View more context for this quotation

1658 Sir T. Browne Garden of Cyrus i, in Hydriotaphia: Urne-buriall 98 Though he that considereth the plain crosse [etc.]..will hardly decline all thought of Christian signality in them.

1693 J. Beaumont Considerations Theory of Earth ii. 111 Blew and red, denoting the two great destructions of the World..; so that the Rainbow carries a mixt signality.

1650 J. Bulwer Anthropometamorphosis Ep. Ded. Had I had a signality of Spirit to summon Democriticall Atomes to conglobate into an intellectuall Forme.

1665 J. Glanvill Scepsis Scientifica Addr. Royal Soc. sig. a4 Now it seems to me a signality in Providence in erecting your most Honourable Society in such a juncture of dangerous Humours.

1848 T. Hall Rowland Bradshaw xvii. 98 A war is the only thing..to give vigor and signality to our authors.

1899 Contemp. Rev. Sept. 442 The battle of Azincourt reproduced the astonishing facts of Crècy and Poictiers with, if possible, even greater signality.

1928 Manitoba Free Press 24 Apr. 28/4 (advt.) There's a world of signality in these handbags, that conform to convention by their pouch- and envelope outliner, but find self-expression in the design of fabric and trimming.