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Definition of Anality
1. a type of psychological state [n -TIES]
Medical Definition of Anality
1. Referring to the psychic organization derived from, and characteristic of, the Freudian anal period of psychosexual development. (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Anality
Literary usage of Anality
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Adolescence: Its Psychology and Its Relations to Physiology, Anthropology by Granville Stanley Hall (1904)
"Hence, partly to disguise these, and partly from the very different propensity
of lapsing to the lower plane of l)anality, we have silliness as a marked ..."
2. The Whole Works of the Right Rev. Jeremy Taylor: With a Life of the Author by Jeremy Taylor, Reginald Heber (1822)
"... and it increases, according as the deflexion and irregularity comes to its
height, position, state, and anality. So that we must " give all diligence to ..."
3. A Complete Manual of English Literature by Thomas Budd Shaw, Henry Theodore Tuckerman (1872)
"So intense was his il vision that abstract qualities are instantly clothed by
him anality, and we sympathize with his shadowy personages as human beings. ..."
4. Orations and Speeches [1845-1850] by Charles Sumner (1850)
"... it sets at ght the best principles of the Constitution, and the y laws of God !
might occupy your time by exposing the unconsti- anality of this act. ..."
5. The Elements of English Grammar: So Arranged as to Combine the Analytical by Samuel Stillman Greene (1863)
"When the attribute is a anality, this verb must always be used ; as. ** Lead is
heavy ; '* but when the attribute is an action, it mav blend with the verb ..."