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Definition of Bovinity
1. the state of being a bovine [n -TIES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bovinity
Literary usage of Bovinity
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Whimsey Anthology by Carolyn Wells (1906)
"THE COW—A bovinity 0 gentle cau, Contented frau, Inert, exempt from violence.
We will allau That you know hau To chew your cud in ..."
2. Personality the Beginning and End of Metaphysics and a Necessary Assumption by Alfred Williams Momerie (1895)
"Accepting the argument from design is not accepting anthropomorphism. Xenophanes
said that if the ox could think, it would attribute bovinity to God; ..."
3. Modern Philosophy: Or A Treatise of Moral and Metaphysical Philosophy from by Frederick Denison Maurice (1862)
"... that they might excuse the impotency of their divinity Aristotle, are continually
playing fast and loose Humanity, with the terms Humanity, bovinity, ..."
4. Air, Food, and Exercises: An Essay on the Predisposing Causes of Disease by Andrea Carlo Francisco Rabagliati (1904)
"What it was and is, that it remains. Nothing can alter it. The heredity of a
human being determines humanity. That of an ox bovinity. ..."
5. Religion Without God and God Without Religion by William Arthur (1885)
"the way to ascertain the sum total of bovinity was' to subtract all the vicious
cows and add on all the amiable sheep. Earlier in history even than that, ..."
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