Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Irregularity; deformity; abnormality.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Departure from the ordinary type; irregularity; monstrosity.
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Examples
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It is against all logic that medieval people bought extremely costly materials like gold thread and fine silk to weave enormously fine fabrics and embroider them all over with beautiful, awe-inspiring motifs using a huge, bulky needle bodkin only, dragging this huge metal abnormity through their costly fine fabric!
Gory Needle Details a stitch in time 2009
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It is against all logic that medieval people bought extremely costly materials like gold thread and fine silk to weave enormously fine fabrics and embroider them all over with beautiful, awe-inspiring motifs using a huge, bulky needle bodkin only, dragging this huge metal abnormity through their costly fine fabric!
Archive 2009-10-01 a stitch in time 2009
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The term. and dragging this huge metal abnormity through their costly fine fabric!
Steel Needles, Take Two a stitch in time 2009
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The term. and dragging this huge metal abnormity through their costly fine fabric!
Archive 2009-07-01 a stitch in time 2009
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The reason for it is this: that fair hair and blue eyes are a deviation from the type and almost constitute an abnormity, analogous to white mice, or at any rate white horses.
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Dr. Langenbeck mentions a family of Silesian peasants who seemed to have an hereditary predisposition to the abnormity known as microcephalism, or small-headedness.
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He was sure that even the crimes that were due to abnormity would cease of themselves when there were no longer hidden reminders of misery in the community.
Pelle the Conqueror — Complete Martin Andersen Nex�� 1911
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He was sure that even the crimes that were due to abnormity would cease of themselves when there were no longer hidden reminders of misery in the community.
Pelle the Conqueror — Volume 04 Martin Andersen Nex�� 1911
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I'm an animated dollar mark, a financial abnormity, with just about as much chance of being loved for myself alone as a fox in November.
Madcap George Gibbs 1906
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And this one -- Hermia Challoner, an enthusiast without a mission -- a feminine abnormity, half child, half oracle, wholly irresponsible and yet, by the same token, wholly and delightfully human!
Madcap George Gibbs 1906
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