Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state of being lineal, or in the form of a line.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The quality of being lineal.
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- noun The quality of being
lineal .
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Examples
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Some taxonomy or lineality, perhaps, instead, sketchy, but to provide general tendencies:
Making Light: Scholarly works to avoid citing at all costs 2010
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The plantations were always weird at this hour of eve — more spectral far than in the leafless season, when there were fewer masses and more minute lineality.
The Woodlanders 2006
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The luxuriant curves departed, a compressed lineality was to be observed everywhere, the pupils of his eyes seemed flattened, and the carriage of his head was limp and sideways.
The Hand of Ethelberta Thomas Hardy 1884
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The plantations were always weird at this hour of eve -- more spectral far than in the leafless season, when there were fewer masses and more minute lineality.
The Woodlanders Thomas Hardy 1884
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a compressed lineality was to be observed everywhere, the pupils of his eyes seemed flattened, and the carriage of his head was limp and sideways.
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