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- noun Plural form of
ideality .
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Examples
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There is also, as with essences and mathematical idealities such as numbers, and values, ideal Dasein.
The Life Divine alone offers the most intellectually satisfying perspective Tusar N Mohapatra 2009
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There is also, as with essences and mathematical idealities such as numbers, and values, ideal Dasein.
Archive 2009-06-01 Tusar N Mohapatra 2009
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As it had grown too dusky without, to see the sign, and as it had not grown light enough within to see the picture, Mr. Gradgrind and Mr. Bounderby received no offence from these idealities.
Hard Times 2002
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The evidences of faith, and the brilliant idealities of hope will hush the voice of murmur, and incite us to kiss the rod that is laid upon us.
The Christian Home Samuel Philips
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We may, perhaps, consider the Grecian gods as mere personifications and idealities, but those of the North are essentially real.
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No. 2, August, 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Various
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Alsatian sublimities of Salvator, the confectionary idealities of
The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 1, April, 1851 Various
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All notions of unworldly and unselfish attachment are branded with the name of romantic follies, unworthy of sensible persons; and the idealities of love, like all other idealities, are fast disappearing beneath the leaden mantle of expediency.
The Young Lady's Mentor A Guide to the Formation of Character. In a Series of Letters to Her Unknown Friends An English Lady
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William James, 'It _feels_ like a real fight -- as if there were something really wild in the universe which we, with all our idealities and faithfulnesses, are needed to redeem; and first of all to redeem our own hearts from atheisms and fears.'
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His metaphysical sense did not spring into life, so that his mind could leap the bars of German expression into sympathy with the idealities of Kant and Hegel.
Berlin (18581859) 1918
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Its title was, "What Does Your Newspaper Mean to You?" headed with the quotation from the Areopagitica: and he compressed into a single column all his dreams and idealities of what a newspaper might be and mean to the public which it sincerely served.
Success A Novel Samuel Hopkins Adams 1914
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