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Definition of Quiddities
1. quiddity [n] - See also: quiddity
Lexicographical Neighbors of Quiddities
Literary usage of Quiddities
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Manuscripts of the Earl Cowper, K. G.: Preserved at Melbourne Hall by John Coke, Thomas Coke, Francis Thomas De Grey Cowper Cowper, William Dashwood Fane (1888)
"... pleased to confirm their land to them by a new grant, the old be imperfect
and subject to the cavils of concealments and many other quiddities of law. ..."
2. The Ridpath Library of Universal Literature: A Biographical and by John Clark Ridpath (1903)
"... and quiddities (1881), Modern Anecdotes (1886), Byways in Book-land, essays (1889),
Rambles in Book- land, essays (1890), A Book of Burlesque (1891), ..."
3. The Ridpath Library of Universal Literature ...: A Biographical and ...by John Clark Ridpath by John Clark Ridpath (1898)
"... and quiddities (1881), Modern Anecdotes (1886), Byways in Book-land, essays (1889),
Rambles in Book- land, essays (1890), A Book of Burlesque (1891), ..."
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