Definition of Somewhats

1. somewhat [n] - See also: somewhat

Lexicographical Neighbors of Somewhats

something or other
something tells one
something terrible
something to write home about
somethinged
somethinging
somethings
somethingth
sometime
sometime(a)
sometimes
someway
someways
somewhat
somewhat poorly drained soil
somewhats (current term)
somewhen
somewhence
somewhere
somewhere along the line
somewhere else
somewhereness
somewheres
somewhile
somewhither
somewhy
somewise
somilase
somital
somite

Literary usage of Somewhats

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Gentleman's Magazine (1843)
"But what is it that is thus pretended to be impossible ? It is but this, that there be three somewhats, which are but one God; ..."

2. The Works of the Rev. John Howe by John Howe, Edmund Calamy (1838)
"And yourself acknowledge three somewhats in the Godhead distinct, ... I will not here urge that if they be three somewhats, they must be three things, ..."

3. A Critical History of the Evolution of Trinitarianism: And Its Outcome in by Levi Leonard Paine (1900)
"What then did Augustine mean by "three persons " or " somewhats," if not three personal beings? Was he a Sabellian without knowing it, and even while ..."

4. A Character of King Charles the Second: And Political, Moral, and ...by George Savile Halifax by George Savile Halifax (1750)
"... three somewhats, or not; and whether Man has received any Information concerning it, or not; fo Man cannot receive any moral Improvement by it; that is, ..."

5. Hegel's Doctrine of Reflection: Being a Paraphrase and a Commentary by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1881)
"They cancel themselves, in that they determine themselves into self-identical somewhats, but in the same, being still negative—a self-identity which is a ..."

6. The Works of Orestes A. Brownson by Orestes Augustus Brownson, Henry Francis Brownson (1884)
"No orthodox theologian protests that the three divine persons are merely somewhats, or distinctions, but all, without exception, maintain that the ..."

7. Lectures on the New Dispensation, Called the New Jerusalem by Benjamin Fiske Barrett (1855)
"For they do not tell us what the real distinction or three somewhats are. Besides, when they come to their doctrine of the Atonement, ..."

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