单词 | graduality |
释义 | gradualityn. The quality or condition of being gradual, in various senses of the adjective. ΘΚΠ the world > time > change > change to something else, transformation > gradual change > [noun] devolution1629 induction1638 graduality1646 development1756 evolution1796 transition1800 evolvement1801 shading-off1858 transitioning1955 the world > action or operation > manner of action > slowness of action or operation > [noun] > gradualness graduality1806 gradualness1842 1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica vi. x. 322 Which..others [ascribe] to the graduality of opacity and light. View more context for this quotation 1662 J. Chandler tr. J. B. van Helmont Oriatrike 134 An accident being on both sides graduated, cannot lay aside its graduality. 1806 W. Taylor in Monthly Mag. 21 417 The accessory ideas of graduality and of change from internal causes are associated with the term. 1869 Fortn. Rev. Oct. 423 (note) A striking instance of the graduality of the evolution of fetichism will be found in ‘Fiji and the Fijians’. 1871 R. H. Hutton Ess. (1877) I. 42 The graduality of the stages by which life ascends. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online March 2018). < |
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