"sphinxity" meaning in All languages combined

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  "etymology_text": "From sphinx + -ity.",
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          "ref": "1841 December 30, “Musical Intelligence”, in The Musical World, volume 16, number 301, page 424:",
          "text": "Like the poem of Epysychidion, by Shelley, the entrails of our epilogomena, will be caviare to the many-headed but to the select few will be as water to the parched earth, as manna to the hungry Israelite; they will unravel our sphinxities, and untwist our enigmatics, so that our dictum shall be as the opening of the seventh seal, or the finality of cherubian metastasis.",
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        {
          "ref": "1909, Sir James Henry Yoxall, The Wander Years, page 233:",
          "text": "At first we stand agedly solemn before the sphinxity of life, and \"on ne devient pas jeune qu'avec le temps.\"",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1989, Dietmar Kamper, Jean Baudrillard, Christoph Wulf, Looking Back on the End of the World, page 90:",
          "text": "[…] the \"sphinxity\" of humans themselves, the riddle that we carry within us and that we have assigned ourselves to solve.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2015, Patrick McGuinness, Poetry and Radical Politics in fin de siècle France, page 36:",
          "text": "We always end up understanding it and the intimate satisfaction we gain from guessing at its sphinxities amply repays the laboriousness of our efforts.",
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          "conundrum"
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1909, Sir James Henry Yoxall, The Wander Years, page 233:",
          "text": "At first we stand agedly solemn before the sphinxity of life, and \"on ne devient pas jeune qu'avec le temps.\"",
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          "ref": "1989, Dietmar Kamper, Jean Baudrillard, Christoph Wulf, Looking Back on the End of the World, page 90:",
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