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severality rare.|sɛvəˈrælɪtɪ|
[f. several a. + -ity. Cf. the earlier severalty.]
1. pl. Individual or particular points, matters, or objects.
1562[see severalty 4]. 1649Bp. Hall Cases Consc. iv. v. (1654) 332 All the severalities of the degrees prohibited run still upon the male. 1830W. Taylor Hist. Surv. Germ. Poetry II. 359 He..Packs up his severalities. 1843Emerson Misc. Papers, Carlyle Wks. (Bohn) III. 315 And no such glaring contrasts or severalities in that or this.
†2. Separateness, distinctness. Obs.
1664Power Exp. Philos. Pref. 9 Multiplicity of parts, diversity of figures, severality of functions.
3. in severality: separately, singly, each by itself.
1665J. Webb Stone-Heng (1725) 31 Reckoning up the Parts of Structures in Severality. 1836J. Abbott Way to do Good ix. 284 The objects, though..trifling when regarded in severality and detail rise to..importance when we consider their fast aggregation. |