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Definition of Formlessness
1. [n -ES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Formlessness
Literary usage of Formlessness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The English Novel: A Study in the Development of Personality by Sidney Lanier (1914)
"... the religious, the historical, agree that the progress of things is from chaos
or formlessness to form, — and, as we saw in the case of verse and prose, ..."
2. The Mental-cure: Illustrating the Influence of the Mind on the Body, Both in by Warren Felt Evans (1886)
"formlessness and Nonentity equivalent. — The Spirit an Organization.— Omnipresence
of it in the Body.—Platonic Idea of it.—Pythagorean Conception of it. ..."
3. Art & Religion by Von Ogden Vogt (1921)
"Freedom is not the gift of formlessness but the mastery of form. The effect of
the teaching of Jesus was to free the Christian community from the old Jewish ..."
4. Analytic Psychology by George Frederick Stout (1918)
"formlessness OF GESTURE-LANGUAGE. The impossibility of giving any adequate expression
... formlessness ..."
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