particularity

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A particular thing.

   “In this particularity vvhereof vve novv ſpeake, ſee hovv his Mercy and Truth are met together, and doe moſt lovingly embrace each other.”

2. isim A distinctive characteristic or quality; a peculiarity.

   “Donny’s obsession for trains is just a harmless particularity of his.”

3. isim A particular case or matter.

   “Novv let the generall Trumpet blovv his blaſt, / Particularities, and pettie ſounds / To ceaſe.”

4. isim The condition of being particular rather than general or universal; specificity.

   “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!”

5. isim The doctrine of the incarnation of God as Jesus occurring at a particular place and time.
6. isim Synonym of particularism (“the principle that only certain people are chosen by God for salvation”).
7. isim Attention to detail; fastidiousness.

   “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.”

8. isim The condition of being special; peculiarity, specialness.

   “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.”

9. isim The condition of being special in an unexpected way; oddness, strangeness; (countable) an instance of this.

   “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.”

10. isim The paying of particular close attention to someone; (countable) an instance of this.

    “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?”