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The original community of all things. Locke. [ 1913 Webster ]
An unreserved community of thought and feeling. W. Irving. [ 1913 Webster ]
Creatures that in communities exist. Wordsworth. [ 1913 Webster ]
Burdens upon the poorer classes of the community. Hallam. [ 1913 Webster ]
☞ In this sense, the term should be used with the definite article; as, the interests of the community. [ 1913 Webster ]
The essential community of nature between organic growth and inorganic growth. H. Spencer. [ 1913 Webster ]
Eyes . . . sick and blunted with community. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. A lack of common possessions, properties, or relationship. [ 1913 Webster ]
Community of embryonic structure reveals community of descent; but dissimilarity of embryonic development does not prove discommunity of descent. Darwin. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. A state of separation or disunion; want of unity. Dr. H. More. [ 1913 Webster ]
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O'ercome with importunity and tears. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ L. impunitas, fr. impunis without punishment; pref. im- not + poena punishment: cf. F. impunité. See Pain. ] Exemption or freedom from punishment, harm, or loss. [ 1913 Webster ]
Heaven, though slow to wrath,
Is never with impunity defied. Cowper. [ 1913 Webster ]
The impunity and also the recompense. Holland. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. Lack of opportunity; unseasonableness; inconvenience. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
n. Intercommunication; community of possessions, religion, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]
In consequence of that intercommunity of paganism . . . one nation adopted the gods of another. Bp. Warburton. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. The quality of being jejune; jejuneness. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ See Immunity. ] Freedom; security; immunity. [ Obs. ] W. Montagu. [ 1913 Webster ]
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A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]
Hull, a town of great strength and opportunity, both to sea and land affairs. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ See Trinity, and Unity. ] Triunity; trinity. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
As for terms of trinity, triniunity, . . . and the like, they reject them as scholastic notions. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. The quality or state of being triune; trinity. Dr. H. More. [ 1913 Webster ]
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Whatever we can consider as one thing suggests to the understanding the idea of unity. Locks. [ 1913 Webster ]
☞ Unity is affirmed of a simple substance or indivisible monad, or of several particles or parts so intimately and closely united as to constitute a separate body or thing. See the Synonyms under Union. [ 1913 Webster ]
Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity! Ps. cxxxiii. 1. [ 1913 Webster ]
☞ The number 1, when it is not applied to any particular thing, is generally called unity. [ 1913 Webster ]
☞ In the Greek drama, the three unities required were those of action, of time, and of place; that is, that there should be but one main plot; that the time supposed should not exceed twenty-four hours; and that the place of the action before the spectators should be one and the same throughout the piece. [ 1913 Webster ]
☞ The properties of it are derived from its unity, which is fourfold; unity of interest, unity of title, unity of time, and unity of possession; in other words, joint tenants have one and the same interest, accruing by one and the same conveyance, commencing at the same time, and held by one and the same undivided possession. Unity of possession is also a joint possession of two rights in the same thing by several titles, as when a man, having a lease of land, afterward buys the fee simple, or, having an easement in the land of another, buys the servient estate. [ 1913 Webster ]
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At unity,
Unity of type. (Biol.)