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[a. F. particularité, ad. late L. particulāritāt-em (Cassiodorus, Boethius), f. particulār-is particular: see -ity.]
The quality of being particular; something that is particular.
1. a. The quality of being particular as opposed to general or universal; the fact of being or relating to one or some (not all) of a class; relation to an individual thing, individuality; spec. in Theology, with ref. to Christ as the incarnation of God as a particular human being at a particular time and place.
1587Fleming Contn. Holinshed III. 1027/1 So also was it generallie doone throughout all England, in which generalitie this city was of a particularitie. 1647H. More Song Soul ii. ii. iii. vi, Not wedg'd in strait particularity, But grasping all in her vast active spright. 1656tr. Hobbes' Elem. Philos. (1839) 22 A common name set by itself with⁓out any note either of universality or particularity, as man, stone,..is called an indefinite name. 1725Watts Logic i. iv. §4 Any common name whatsoever is made proper by terms of particularity added to it. 1865Mozley Mirac. ii. 41 That..does not alter the particularity of the fact, or make it at all the more a universal. 1930E. Hoskyns in Bell & Deissmann Mysterium Christi 89 The philosopher should..make sense of it [sc. revelation] by some other means than by obscuring the particularity of the Old Testament and by refusing to recognize that in the end the particularity of the Old Testament is only intelligible in the light of its narrowed fulfilment in Jesus, the Messiah, and of its expanded fulfilment in the Church. 1966G. W. H. Lampe in Lampe & Mackinnon Resurrection vii. 92 The Incarnation necessarily involves particularity. If the Word was truly made flesh then he had to be incarnate as a certain individual man in a particular time and place. 1969T. F. Torrance Theol. Sci. iii. 140 God reveals Himself in the contingent particularity and sheer singularity of Jesus Christ. 1975Listener 17 July 92/2 She seems to lack awareness of individuals in the particularity of each. 1979B. Hebblethwaite in M. Goulder Incarnation & Myth iv. 93 The inevitable limitations of that particularity are overcome..by his spiritual and sacramental presence and activity, by means of which God's personal self-revelation in Jesus is universalized.
†b. A particular or individual matter or affair; a particular case or instance. Obs.
1593Shakes. 2 Hen. VI, v. ii. 44 Now let the generall Trumpet blow his blast, Particularities, and pettie sounds To cease. 1598J. Manwood Forest Lawes i. §3 (1615) 22 There is no principle or ground so generall, that there is not some particularity exempted out of it.
2. a. The quality of being special or of a special kind; the fact of being in some way distinguished or noteworthy; speciality, peculiarity. Now rare.
1570Dee Math. Pref. C iv, Sufficient to notifie, the particularitie, and excellency of the Arte. 1711Steele Spect. No. 142 ⁋8 To..have the Esteem of a Woman of your Merit, has in it a Particularity of Happiness. 1793Smeaton Edystone L. Contents 7 Further augmented by the particularity of the Tide.
†b. Peculiarity such as to excite surprise, singularity, oddity; an instance of this, an odd action or characteristic. Obs.
1712Steele Spect. No. 438 ⁋4 An habitual Humour, Whim, or Particularity of Behaviour. 1754Richardson Grandison (1781) VI. xxiii. 132 Mr. Greville..has frequently surprized us with his particularities. a1791Reynolds in Boswell's Johnson an. 1739, One instance of his absence of mind and particularity, as it is characteristick of the man, may be worth relating.
3. An attribute belonging particularly to the thing in question; a special or distinctive quality or feature; a peculiarity. Now rare.
1588Parke tr. Mendoza's Hist. China 343 It is thought that they doo descend of the tartares, by some particularities that is found amongst them. 1604E. G[rimstone] tr. D'Acosta's Hist. Indies iii. xii. 159 To speak what we know of the particularities of the Antartike straight. 1713Steele Guard. No. 10 ⁋7 Some particularities in the garb of their Abbés may be transplanted hither to advantage. 1779Sir W. Hamilton in Phil. Trans. LXX. 75 The particularity of this last eruption was, that the lava..was now chiefly thrown up from its Crater. 1844Ld. Brougham A. Lunel III. viii. 231 He has, however, some of the particularities of the family. 1863E. V. Neale Anal. Th. & Nat. 75 Seeking for the general conception through the particularities of the individual.
†4. Personal interest or advantage: = particular B. 6 b; also, regard to personal or private interest, an act dictated by this. Sc. Obs.
1549Compl. Scot. 158 The quhilk gracis and propreteis ar nocht grantit be god for thy particularite, but rather..to be ane dispensatour of his gyftis amang the ignorant pepil. 1578–9Reg. Privy Council Scot. III. 79 The correctioun of his thevis is nather done for gredines nor ony kynd of particularitie. 1585–6Ibid. IV. 47 Mair respecting thair awne particulariteis nor the commounweill of the said citie.
5. A particular point or circumstance, a detail: = particular B. 2. (Common in 16–17th c.)
1528Gardiner in Pocock Rec. of Ref. I. l. 103 And so from such good words entered into the particularities of the matter. 1536Cromwell 14 May in Merriman Life & Lett. (1902) II. 12, I write noo particularities, the thinges be soo abhomynable, that I thinke the like was neuer harde. 1632Sanderson Serm. 302 In this particularity whereof we now speake. 1717Lady M. W. Montagu Let. to Abbé Conti 29 May, When I spoke of their religion, I forgot to mention two particularities. 1796Morse Amer. Geog. II. 19 The particularities related of this animal would be incredible, were they not attested upon oath. 1961W. Herberg in Webster s.v., Fixing exclusively on the particularities of the current situation. 1977Times Lit. Suppl. 11 Feb. 148/3 Sociologists are notorious for their use of generalizing terms that ride roughshod over the particularities of history.
6. Minuteness or detailedness of description, statement, investigation, etc.; treatment of the particulars of a matter.
1638A. Read Chirurg. xviii. 130 Fomentations..for a gangrene, whereof I meane to discourse in a particularity. 1699Burnet 39 Art. ii. (1700) 53 There is no part of the Gospel writ with so copious a Particularity, as the History of his Sufferings and Death. 1790Paley Horæ Paul. i. 5 The very particularity of St. Paul's Epistles. 1844Gladstone Glean. V. xix. 95 Charges which, ponderous as they are, are so deficient in particularity. 1883Sir A. Hobhouse in Law Rep. 9 App. Cases 180 It is necessary to examine the proceedings with some particularity.
†7. Special attentiveness to a person; an instance of this, a particular attention; familiarity. Obs.
1709Steele Tatler No. 47 ⁋2 All the remarkable Particularities which are usual for Persons who admire one another. 1734Fielding Univ. Gallant iii. ii. Wks. 1882 X. 76 Sister, I am surprised at you. This particularity with a young fellow is very indecent. 1815Jane Austen Emma iii. xiv. 380 Behaving one hour with objectionable particularity to another woman.
8. Attentiveness to details of action; special carefulness; preciseness, fastidiousness.
1671Woodhead St. Teresa ii. 255 With great weight, and much particularity, I heard internally that Verse of the Psalm. 1753Richardson Grandison (1781) I. viii. 36 Sir Rowland himself, as you will guess by his particularity, is an old bachelor. 1832J. P. Kennedy Swallow B. (1860) 14 It [the letter] flouted my opinions, laughed at my particularity. 1882C. F. Woolson Anne 96 A particularity as to the saving of string.
†9. Phr. in particularity: in detail; individually; specially: = in particular (particular A. 13 a, b).
1559Parker in Burnet Hist. Ref. (1681) II. Collect. Rec. 362 Which mine disability I might alleadg at length in particularity. 1569Act 11 Eliz. in Bolton Stat. Irel. (1621) 317 Your Majesties title in generalitie to the whole Realme of Ireland, and in particularitie to the dominion and territories of Ulster. 1588Fraunce Lawiers Log. Ded. ⁋⁋b, There is no Law-maker so provident, as that hee can in particularity foresee and..prevent the infinite variety of future inconveniences. |