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abstrusity arch.|æbˈstruːsɪtɪ|
Also 7 abstrucity.
[ad. assumed L. *abstrūsitas, n. of state f. abstrūs-us; see -ity.]
a. Abstruseness; obscurity.
b. Anything abstruse; an obscure or recondite matter or point.
1632H. R[eynolds] Mythomystes 42 Those secreter Mysteries, and abstrusities of most high diuinity. 1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Epid. i. viii. 34 Those authors are also suspicious, nor greedily to be swallowed, who pretend to write of..the occult abstrucities of things. 1658― Gard. of Cyrus II. 560 He may meet with abstrusities of no ready resolution. 1755B. Martin Mag. of Arts & Sci. viii. 165 Reason, Nature, and Analogy here are but blind Guides; they conduct us with Certainty but a little Way in the Abstrusities of infinite Creation. 1839M. Tupper Proverb. Philos. (ed. 3) 285 All will again be for abstrusity. 1925Dreiser Amer. Trag. (1926) II. iii. xiii. 179 There were criminal lawyers deeply versed in the abstrusities and tricks of the criminal law. |