"esotery" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: esoteries [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} esotery (plural esoteries)
  1. Mystery; esoterics; knowledge or lore that is esoteric.
    Sense id: en-esotery-en-noun-hA7oaUF3 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries

Inflected forms

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          "text": "1839 September 26, \"Vindex,\" Letter to the editor, The Musical World, Number CLXXXIV [New Series no. XCI], Volume XII [New Series Volume V], May 23—December 26 1839, page 334,\nBut a more important division of the musical public, is that of the learned and unlearned, the esoteries and exoteries ; and in no country whatever have I yet heard a perfectly educated musician call Mozart second-rate."
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          "text": "Later on, the doctrine, owing to the contact with the esoteries of the Upanishads, was burdened with scholastic elements: the ideal of an Arhat, aspiring to Nirvana, was excogitated.",
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          "text": "1954, William Bruce Cameron, Sociological Notes on the Jam Session, Social Forces, Volume 33, page 179, quoted in 2008, Paul Rinzler, The Contradictions of Jazz, page 54,\nThis means, of course, a continual advance into abstraction and esotery, so that contemporary jazz is always musical casuistry, forever seeking new ways to rationalize the impossible."
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          "ref": "1995, Bhai Nahar Singh, Bhai Kirpal Singh, Rebels Against the British Rule, page 99:",
          "text": "Whilst Ram Singh was in quasi-confinemcnt at Bhainee, there was a charm of mystery and esotery about the man, to which our espionage, perhaps, added a spice of fascinating prosecution.",
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          "ref": "1996, Anthony Julius, T.S. Eliot, anti-semitism, and literary form, page 92:",
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