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Definition of Firstness
1. [n -ES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Firstness
Literary usage of Firstness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Works of John Owen by John Owen (1826)
"Briefly, when they have proved metropolitan, diocesan bishops in a firstness of
power by the institution of Christ, a national church by the same ..."
2. George Eliot's Poetry: And Other Studies by Rose Elizabeth Cleveland (1885)
"That which wins for the thinker the title of original is not the newness— or
firstness—of his thoughts ; but the newness, perhaps firstness, ..."
3. Library Journal by American Library Association, Library Association (1922)
"The back-end-firstness in which cataloging has been taught accounts in some
measure for the students' disdain of it. They are often introduced to it thru ..."
4. The English Illustrated Magazine (1891)
"He seemed to have more and more kinship with the things that belonged to Nature's
firstness—with the sky and the lake and the trees, nay, even with the dead ..."
5. Shakespeare; Life and Work by Frederick James Furnivall, John James Munro (1908)
"... in these points—made him agree in this firstness of the Pity. But another man,
with very much slighter knowledge of Chaucer details, could not agree—he ..."
6. Lectures on the Philosophy of Law: Together with Whewell and Hegel, and by James Hutchison Stirling (1873)
"... and firstness, so to speak, give it a character of abstractness; for that is
abstract—as sweetness, whiteness—that is in isolated self-identity only. ..."
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