Definition of Abstrusities

1. Noun. (plural of abstrusity) ¹

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Definition of Abstrusities

1. abstrusity [n] - See also: abstrusity

Lexicographical Neighbors of Abstrusities

abstringed
abstringes
abstringing
abstrude
abstruded
abstrudes
abstruding
abstruse
abstrusely
abstruseness
abstrusenesses
abstruser
abstrusest
abstrusion
abstrusions
abstrusities (current term)
abstrusity
absume
absumed
absumes
absuming
absumption
absurd
absurder
absurdest
absurdism
absurdisms
absurdist
absurdists
absurdities

Literary usage of Abstrusities

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

1. The Christian Examiner (1850)
"... offer the abstrusities of metaphysics to plain men and women, instead of the Law and the Gospel. Nor will science ever work out a religion for our race. ..."

2. An Alphabet in Finance: A Simple Statement of Permanent Principles and Their by Graham McAdam (1876)
"In itself it is a very simple affair, and since its abstrusities have been woven into many of the theories about specie resumption, with the result (if not ..."

3. The deerslayer by James Fenimore Cooper (1841)
"... could not penetrate abstrusities, or trace the nice affinities between cause and effect, beyond their more obvious and indisputable connection, ..."

4. The Praise of Folly: By Desiderius Erasmus by Desiderius Erasmus (1887)
"... and such like abstrusities, as one would think no one could pry into, except he had not only such cat's eyes as to see best in the dark, but even such a ..."

5. Publishers Weekly by Publishers' Board of Trade (U.S.), Book Trade Association of Philadelphia, American Book Trade Union, Am. Book Trade Association, R.R. Bowker Company (1911)
"For twelve years he has earned a living as a farm hand, studying deeply meanwhile Hegel's abstrusities. Physically he is a giant, in the prime of life, ..."

6. The Geographical Journal by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain). (1894)
"Tall, spare—almost emaciated—with the rounded shoulders and feeble health of the scholar, fond of discussing philological abstrusities by the hour, ..."

7. Religio Medici: A Letter to a Friend, Christian Morals, Urn-burial, and by Sir Thomas Browne, James Thomas Fields (1862)
"... than good in Holy Scripture, and why ? he may meet with abstrusities of no ready resolution. If any shall question the rationality of that magic, ..."

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