Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state of being without form.
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- noun The quality of being
formless
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Examples
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Moreover, this "formlessness" strategy shows up again in other areas.
Matt Osborne: Sun Tzu and the Art of 11-Dimensional Chess 2009
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It is true, that that formlessness which is almost nothing, cannot be subject to the alteration of times.
The Confessions 1999
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Out of this invisible and unformed earth, out of this formlessness which is almost nothing, thou didst then make all these things of which the changeable world consists -- and yet does not fully consist in itself [469] -- for its very changeableness appears in this, that its times and seasons can be observed and numbered.
Confessions and Enchiridion, newly translated and edited by Albert C. Outler 345-430 1955
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Now I do not know what kind of formlessness there is in these mutations of these last and lowest creatures.
Confessions and Enchiridion, newly translated and edited by Albert C. Outler 345-430 1955
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It is true that the formlessness which is almost nothing cannot have temporal change in it.
Confessions and Enchiridion, newly translated and edited by Albert C. Outler 345-430 1955
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Spirit as the Absolute is both formlessness and form.
Andrew Z. Cohen: Spirit Is Higher Andrew Z. Cohen 2011
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Spirit as the Absolute is both formlessness and form.
Andrew Z. Cohen: Spirit Is Higher Andrew Z. Cohen 2011
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It's a joy to find this young author coming into his own, and bringing the craft of science fiction out of the backwaters where it's been caught lately between the regressive drag of publishers marketing to a "safe" readership and the bewildering promises of change and growth offered by postmodernism in all its forms and formlessness.
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The controversial sketch of Saraswati, for example, is an elegant white-on-black line drawing, which makes the viewer reflect on the old Indian tradition of "nirakara," or formlessness.
A Portrait of India's Intolerance Salil Tripathi 2011
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We share the horror vacui of the artist facing the blank page, struggling to give shape to its formlessness.
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