单词 | community of interest |
释义 | > as lemmascommunity of interest 11. The fact of having a quality or qualities in common; shared character, similarity; identity; unity. †nothing of community: nothing in common (obsolete). community of interest: identity of interest, interests in common (spec. in Finance).Formerly also as a count noun: †a shared or common quality. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > relationship > similarity > [noun] > common character or quality in common communicationa1382 commonness1530 community1560 1560 W. Painter tr. W. Fulke Antiprognosticon sig. A.vv There is no communitie or felowshyp betwene certenty and vncertayntie. 1587 Sir P. Sidney & A. Golding tr. P. de Mornay Trewnesse Christian Relig. ii. 20 Men, who ought euen naturally to be vnited, by the communitie of their kind. 1624 H. Wotton Elements Archit. in Reliquiæ Wottonianæ (1672) 21 I will first consider their Communities and then their Proprieties. Their Communities are Principally three. First they are all Round, etc. 1682 N. Grew Idea Philos. Hist. Plants 18 in Anat. Plants The Communities and Differences of the Contents of Vegetables. 1706 T. Wise in R. Cudworth Confut. of Reason & Philos. of Atheism I. Introd. 30 Whenever the antient Fathers apply'd to the Godhead the Term specifical, or call'd it a Species, they meant no more in it, than to denote its Community to and Predicability of the three Divine Hypostases. 1843 W. Wordsworth in C. Wordsworth Mem. (1851) II. xxxv. 35 The resemblance between them, or rather the points of community in their nature. 1873 M. Arnold Lit. & Dogma v. 150 The human mind is now drawing away from reliance on miracles, coming to perceive the community of character which pervades them all. 1883 J. R. Seeley Expansion of Eng. i. 11 There are..three ties by which states are held together, community of race, community of religion, community of interest. 1925 Cent. Mag. Jan. 334/1 Between the Bourbons of the South and the worker and immigrant of the North there has been no community of belief. 1955 Times 9 May 8/6 Increased cooperation within the Balkan pact would establish a useful example of a fruitful and lively community of interest among peoples. 1998 J. M. Woody Freedom's Embrace xi. 284 Can freedom serve as a common ideal that will give individuals some community of purpose? < as lemmas |
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