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Definition of Spinosities
1. spinosity [n] - See also: spinosity
Lexicographical Neighbors of Spinosities
Literary usage of Spinosities
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Puritan and Anglican: Studies in Literature by Edward Dowden (1900)
"It was not always an advantage to Taylor that he delayed among these subtleties
and spinosities, and the panegyrist adds with a half apologetic touch ..."
2. Puritan and Anglican: Studies in Literature by Edward Dowden (1901)
"He was not unseen," says Rust, " in the subtleties and spinosities of the schools,
and upon occasion could make them serve his purpose. ..."
3. The Works of Tennyson by Alfred Tennyson Tennyson, Hallam Tennyson Tennyson (1908)
"... with its " subtilties and spinosities," a rhetorician rather than a reasoner :
for his style is full of redundancy and prolixity, though less so in this ..."
4. The Cambridge Modern History by John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Acton, Ernest Alfred Benians, Sir Adolphus William Ward, George Walter Prothero (1908)
"... with its " subtilties and spinosities," a rhetorician rather than a reasoner:
for his style is full of redundancy and prolixity, though less so in this ..."
5. Jeremy Taylor by Edmund Gosse (1904)
"He proposes no new theology, he discusses no spinosities of creed; he maps the
path of conduct, and enlightens it with all the colour and radiance of his ..."
6. Jeremy Taylor by Edmund Gosse (1904)
"... which cannot be later than 1642 a single far-sighted friend had perceived that
Taylor was throwing away his genius upon " the spinosities of the schools ..."
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