单词 | omneity |
释义 | omneityn. The fact or condition of being all; allness, spec. as an attribute of God. Occasionally: God as an all-encompassing being. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > the whole or all > [noun] > fact or condition of being omneity1638 omnitude1848 1638 W. Gilbert Let. in R. Parr Life J. Usher (1686) Coll. cxcix. 494 In the apprehension of God's Omneity, and his own Nothing. 1643 Sir T. Browne Religio Medici (authorized ed.) i. §35 So nothing became something and Omneity [1682 Omniety] informed Nullity into an Essence. View more context for this quotation 1816 S. T. Coleridge Statesman's Man. App. p. vi In the language of the old schools, Unity + Omnëity = Totality. 1860 A. Hayward tr. J. W. von Goethe Faust Notes 167 The Ganzen..is the Omniety of the metaphysicians. 1953 Jrnl. Hist. Ideas 14 361 This metaphor for him more completely and more directly defines the reality, God, than do such terms as ‘first cause’, ‘omneity’, or ‘entelechy’. 1978 K. A. McClane Laurie in Moons & Low Times 3 Caste-wormy they Who had seen the fragile omneity In the orifice of Exilic thistle. 1988 N. Stimson Planetarium in Flying Pigs l. 15 Omneity, alpha, omega, Carrier of stars and root of darkness. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1638 |
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