particularity

UK /pəˌtɪkjʊˈlæɹɪti/ US /pə(ɹ)ˌtɪkjəˈlɛɹəti/
noun 5

Definitions

noun

1

A particular thing.

In this particularity vvhereof vve novv ſpeake, ſee hovv his Mercy and Truth are met together, and doe moſt lovingly embrace each other.

[I]f they never hear plain truth from men, they see the best of every thing, in every kind, and they see things so grouped and amassed as to infer easily the sum and genius, instead of tedious particularities.

2

A distinctive characteristic or quality; a peculiarity.

Donny’s obsession for trains is just a harmless particularity of his.

3

A particular case or matter.

Novv let the generall Trumpet blovv his blaſt, / Particularities, and pettie ſounds / To ceaſe.

[W]e Chriſtians, vnto vvhom it is reuealed in particularity, that all Men came from one Lumpe of Earth; […]

4

The condition of being particular rather than general or universal; specificity.

But true Religion sprung from God above / Is like her fountain full of charity, / […] / [F]ree, large, even infinite, / Not wedg'd in strait particularity, / But grasping all in her vast active spright, / Bright lamp of God! that men would joy in thy pure light!

An indefinite Propoſition, is, vvhen no Note, either of Univerſality or Particularity, is prefixed to a Subject, vvhich is in its ovvn Nature general; as, a Planet is ever changing its Place: Angels are noble Creatures.

5

The condition of being particular rather than general or universal; specificity.

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