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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The character of being multiform; diversity of forms; variety of shapes or appearances in one thing.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The quality of being multiform; diversity of forms; variety of appearances in the same thing.

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  • noun The quality of being multiform, or having many forms.

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Examples

  • Cocksworth (1991) and Douglas (2006) argue that Anglican eucharistic theology is characterized by multiformity, that is, a multiplicity of views with many voices actually competing against each other.

    Lovat & Douglas: Habermas and Eucharistic Theology 2007

  • Cocksworth (1991) and Douglas (2006) argue that Anglican eucharistic theology is characterized by multiformity, that is, a multiplicity of views with many voices actually competing against each other.

    Archive 2007-04-01 2007

  • Like salmon, we hurl ourselves against entropy, returning in fits and starts and occasional heroic leaps to our place of origin; as though the primal spirit had fallen into infinity multiformity and had somehow forgotten itself in the process.

    Thoughts on Space | Living the Liminal 2007

  • I am firm on the view from the case studies on my web site that there is a multiformity of view in the Anglican eucharistic tradition and such a situation requires dialogue but never acrimony.

    Why Should I Even Respond? 2007

  • My view from my own research is that in the Anglican eucharistic tradition there is a multiformity of view (as Christopher Cocksworth argues) and that both realist and non-realist (nominalist as I call them) views are found in the tradition.

    Why Should I Even Respond? 2007

  • The matter of concern for me is that everyone needs to acknowledge this multiformity (and this is a feature of my research thesis) but that at the same time moderate realism ( that is, not the fleshy sort of realism that argues bread becomes body but the mystical but nonetheless real presence) is the predominant view of the Anglican tradition.

    Why Should I Even Respond? 2007

  • Having followed thus far a subject which is not without interest, I have come to the confines of the system of Dr. Gall who sustains the multiformity of the organs of the brain.

    The physiology of taste; or Transcendental gastronomy. Illustrated by anecdotes of distinguished artists and statesmen of both continents by Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin. Translated from the last Paris edition by Fayette Robinson. 2004

  • No doubt this astonishment is to some extent due to the fact that the other person on such occasions presents himself in a fresh aspect; but so great is the multiformity of each of us, so abundant the wealth of lines of face and body, lines so few of which leave any trace, once we have parted from the other person, on the arbitrary simplicity of our memory.

    Within a Budding Grove 2003

  • And howsoever contention hath been moved, touching a uniformity of method in multiformity of matter, yet we see how that opinion, besides the weakness of it, hath been of ill desert towards learning, as that which taketh the way to reduce learning to certain empty and barren generalities; being but the very husks and shells of sciences, all the kernel being forced out and expulsed with the torture and press of the method.

    The Advancement of Learning 2003

  • Animals, however, that not only live but feel, present a greater multiformity of parts, and this diversity is greater in some animals than in others, being most varied in those to whose share has fallen not mere life but life of high degree.

    On the Parts of Animals 2002

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