See particularity on Wiktionary
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"text": "In this particularity vvhereof vve novv ſpeake, ſee hovv his Mercy and Truth are met together, and doe moſt lovingly embrace each other.",
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"ref": "1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies. […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene iii], page 145, column 2:",
"text": "Novv let the generall Trumpet blovv his blaſt, / Particularities, and pettie ſounds / To ceaſe.",
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"ref": "1622 (date written), Francis [Bacon], “An Advertisement Touching an Holy VVarre. […]”, in William Rawley, editor, Certaine Miscellany VVorks of the Right Honourable Francis Lo. Verulam, Viscount S. Alban. […], London: […] I. Hauiland for Humphrey Robinson, […], published 1629, →OCLC, page 133:",
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"ref": "1647, Henry More, “[Philosophical Poems.] Psychathanasia or The Second Part of the Song of the Soul, Treating of the Immortality of Souls, Especially Mans Soul.”, in Alexander B[alloch] Grosart, editor, The Complete Poems of Dr. Henry More (1614–1687) […] (Chertsey Worthies’ Library), [Edinburgh: […] Edinburgh University Press; Thomas and Archibald Constable, […]] for private circulation, published 1878, →OCLC, book II, canto 3, stanza 6, page 63, column 2:",
"text": "But true Religion sprung from God above / Is like her fountain full of charity, / […] / [F]ree, large, even infinite, / Not wedg'd in strait particularity, / But grasping all in her vast active spright, / Bright lamp of God! that men would joy in thy pure light!",
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"ref": "1725, Isaac Watts, “Of the Various Kinds of Propositions”, in Logick: Or, The Right Use of Reason in the Enquiry after Truth, […], 2nd edition, London: […] John Clark and Richard Hett, […], Emanuel Matthews, […], and Richard Ford, […], published 1726, →OCLC, part II (Of Judgment and Proposition), section I (Of Universal, Particular, Indefinite, and Singular Propositions), page 148:",
"text": "An indefinite Propoſition, is, vvhen no Note, either of Univerſality or Particularity, is prefixed to a Subject, vvhich is in its ovvn Nature general; as, a Planet is ever changing its Place: Angels are noble Creatures.",
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"ref": "1699, Gilbert, Bishop of Sarum [i.e., Gilbert Burnet], “Article II. Of the Word or Son of God, which was Made Very Man.”, in An Exposition of the Thirty-nine Articles of the Church of England. […], 2nd edition, London: […] R[obert] Roberts, for Ri[chard] Chiswell, […], published 1700, →OCLC, page 53:",
"text": "There is no part of the Goſpel vvrit vvith ſo copious a Particularity, as the Hiſtory of his [Jesus's] Sufferings and Death; as there vvas indeed no part of the Goſpel ſo important as this is.",
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"ref": "1892, Robert Louis Stevenson, Lloyd Osbourne, “The Cabin of the ‘Flying Scud’”, in The Wrecker, London, Paris: Cassell & Company, […], →OCLC, page 218:",
"text": "I must not be expected to describe our first day's work, or (for that matter) any of the rest, in order and detail as it occurred. Such particularity might have been possible for several officers and a draft of men from a ship of war, accompanied by an experienced secretary with a knowledge of shorthand.",
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"glosses": [
"Attention to detail; fastidiousness."
],
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"Attention",
"attention"
],
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"detail#Noun"
],
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"fastidiousness",
"fastidiousness"
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"Attention to detail; fastidiousness."
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"word": "scrupulousness"
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"ref": "1711 August 24 (Gregorian calendar), [Richard Steele], “MONDAY, August 13, 1711”, in The Spectator, number 142; republished in Alexander Chalmers, editor, The Spectator; a New Edition, […], volume II, New York, N.Y.: D[aniel] Appleton & Company, 1853, →OCLC, page 245:",
"text": "To pass my evenings in so sweet a conversation, and have the esteem of a woman of your merit, has in it a particularity of happiness no more to be expressed than returned.",
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"The condition of being special; peculiarity, specialness."
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"(uncountable)",
"(obsolete)",
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"word": "distinction"
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"ref": "1712 August 3 (Gregorian calendar), [Richard Steele], “WEDNESDAY, July 23, 1712”, in The Spectator, number 438; republished in Alexander Chalmers, editor, The Spectator; a New Edition, […], volume V, New York, N.Y.: D[aniel] Appleton & Company, 1853, →OCLC, page 162:",
"text": "No man ought to be tolerated in a habitual humour, whim, or particularity of behaviour, by any who do not wait upon him for bread.",
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"ref": "1753 (indicated as 1754), [Samuel Richardson], “Letter LIV. Lady G[randison]. In Continuation.”, in The History of Sir Charles Grandison. […], volume V, London: […] S[amuel] Richardson; [a]nd sold by C. Hitch and L. Hawes, […], →OCLC, page 333:",
"text": "Lucy looks at her uncle as if ſhe could hardly excuſe his particularities; but Mrs. Shirley has alvvays ſomething to ſay for him.",
"type": "quote"
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"ref": "1791, James Boswell, “[1764]”, in James Boswell, editor, The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. […], volume I, London: […] Henry Baldwin, for Charles Dilly, […], →OCLC, page 264:",
"text": "He had another particuliarity, of vvhich none of his friends ever ventured to aſk an explanation. It appeared to me ſome ſuperſtitious habit, vvhich he had contracted early, and from vvhich he had never called upon his reaſon to diſ-entangle him. This vvas his anxious care to go out or in at a door or paſſage, by a certain number of ſteps from a certain point, […]",
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"word": "singularity"
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"text": "Whenever they met, they talked to each other aloud, chose each other partner at balls, saluted at the most conspicuous parts of the service of the church, and practised, in honour of each other, all the remarkable particularities which are usual for persons who admire one another, and are contemptible to the rest of the world.",
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"ref": "1815 December (indicated as 1816), [Jane Austen], chapter XIV, in Emma: […], volume III, London: […] [Charles Roworth and James Moyes] for John Murray, →OCLC, page 268:",
"text": "While I, to blind the world to our engagement, was behaving one hour with objectionable particularity to another woman, was she to be consenting the next to a proposal which might have made every previous caution useless?",
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"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "particular thing",
"word": "asia"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "particular thing",
"word": "yksityiskohta"
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"code": "ar",
"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "ḵuṣūṣ",
"sense": "distinctive characteristic or quality — see also peculiarity",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "خُصُوص"
},
{
"code": "az",
"lang": "Azerbaijani",
"sense": "distinctive characteristic or quality — see also peculiarity",
"word": "təfərrüat"
},
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "distinctive characteristic or quality — see also peculiarity",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "particularitat"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "distinctive characteristic or quality — see also peculiarity",
"word": "erityispiirre"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "distinctive characteristic or quality — see also peculiarity",
"word": "ominaispiirre"
},
{
"code": "hi",
"lang": "Hindi",
"roman": "viśeṣtā",
"sense": "distinctive characteristic or quality — see also peculiarity",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "विशेषता"
},
{
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "distinctive characteristic or quality — see also peculiarity",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "leithleachas"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "distinctive characteristic or quality — see also peculiarity",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "particolarità"
},
{
"code": "lt",
"lang": "Lithuanian",
"sense": "distinctive characteristic or quality — see also peculiarity",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "ypatýbė"
},
{
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "osobenost",
"sense": "distinctive characteristic or quality — see also peculiarity",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "особеност"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "distinctive characteristic or quality — see also peculiarity",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "particularidade"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "distinctive characteristic or quality — see also peculiarity",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "particularitate"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "podróbnostʹ",
"sense": "distinctive characteristic or quality — see also peculiarity",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "подро́бность"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "distinctive characteristic or quality — see also peculiarity",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "particularidad"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "doctrine of the incarnation of God as Jesus occurring at a particular place and time",
"word": "partikularismi"
}
],
"word": "particularity"
}
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