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Definition of Fixities
1. fixity [n] - See also: fixity
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fixities
Literary usage of Fixities
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Calcutta Review by University of Calcutta (1844)
""Fancy, on the contrary, has no other counters to play with, but fixities and
definites. The Fancy is indeed no other than a mode of memory emancipated from ..."
2. The Journal of Philology by William George Clark, William Aldis Wright, Ingram Bywater, John Eyton Bickersteth Mayor, Henry Jackson (1886)
"To this question I reply that it is the study of natural types, of the fixities
of nature, which alone Plato recommends in the politicus; whilst in the ..."
3. The Truth and Error of Christian Science by M Carta Sturge (1908)
"Consequently, when our minds interpret our impressions for us in what we may call
terms of fixities, in ordered relations and sequences which we are ..."
4. The Gunpowder Plot and Lord Mounteagle's Letter: Being a Proof, with Moral by Henry Hawkes Spink, Henry Hawkes Spink, jr (1902)
"These fixities of thought or self-evident fundamentals will be points from which
the reason of the Historical Inquirer can take swing. ..."
5. Library Journal by Charles Ammi Cutter, American Library Association, Library Association (1896)
"But our lot is cast in the transition stage, at which we lose the fixities that
were, before the coming of the harmonies that will be. ..."
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