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Definition of Qualities
1. quality [n] - See also: quality
Lexicographical Neighbors of Qualities
Literary usage of Qualities
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Essay Concerning Human Understanding by John Locke (1894)
"qualities and Powers of Bodies. 1 73 such ideas to such motions, with which they
have no simili- BOOK n. tude, than that he should annex the idea of pain to ..."
2. A Treatise of Human Nature: Being an Attempt to Introduce the Experimental by David Hume (1890)
"The doctrine of primary qualities was naturally the HOW can one upon which the
... 2, 7), that the conception of primary qualities is only possible upon ..."
3. A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume (1874)
"Yot it is brought within consciousness again by the supposition that it has
qualities which copy themselves in our ideas and are 'the exciting causes of all ..."
4. An essay concerning human understanding by John Locke (1838)
"These I call primary qualities. Secondly, The power that is in any body, by reason
of its insensible primary qualities, to operate after a peculiar manner ..."
5. An essay concerning human understanding by John Locke (1823)
"ideas, if I speak of them sometimes, as in the things themselves, I would be
understood to mean those qualities in the objects which produce them in us. §. ..."
6. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"Mating qualities one to 25 or 40 hens. Mate most freely of any classes.
Highest fertility and hatching power. Blue Andalusians. Anconas (Rose Comb. ..."
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