singularistn.
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the world > action or operation > behaviour > affected behaviour or affectation > [noun] > person affecting unconformity
singularist1593
singularitan1615
the world > relative properties > order > disorder > irregularity > unconformity > abnormality > [noun] > oddness > odd person
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singularitan1615
queer fellow1712
oddity1731
unaccountable1748
character1773
rum1788
eccentric1832
card1835
card1853
hard case1892
queer shot1900
rummy1909
hard thing1918
hardshot1924
quaint1939
odd bod1942
oddball1943
joker in the pack1963
quirky1975
1593 G. Harvey Pierces Supererogation 101 One Vnlearned Singularist hath more in him, then ten learned Precisians.
1596 T. Nashe Haue with you to Saffron-Walden sig. G4 Some smirking Singularists, brag Reformists, and glicking Remembrancers..seeke to bee masons of infinite contradiction.
a1641 R. Montagu Acts & Monuments (1642) 45 The private faults, opinions, conceits of Factionists, Singularists, or so, bee Fathered upon the Church.
a1677 I. Barrow Wks. (1686) III. 378 Men not enduring to..be termed..a clownish singularist, or non-conformist to ordinary usage, a stiff opiniatrè.
2. Ecclesiastical. One who holds a single benefice, as contrasted with a pluralist adj. and n. rare.
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society > faith > worship > benefice > [noun] > one who possesses > who has one
unalist1743
singularist1799
1799 Mornington in Stanhope Life Pitt III. 192 To make my brother Gerald a fat pluralist: he is at present a meagre singularist.
1832 Fraser's Mag. 5 550 The effect..will be..to make the rich and influential clergyman a pluralist, and keep the poorer class singularists probably for life.
3. An adherent or advocate of singularism n.; also attributive.
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1911 J. Ward Realm of Ends 201 The pluralist's extremity will doubtless be regarded as the singularist's opportunity.
1911 J. Ward Realm of Ends 271 Singularist philosophers are fond of speaking of the world as the differentiation of the Absolute.
1922 A. G. Hogg Redempt. from this World 262 My own philosophical tendency is toward a theistic or non-Singularist type of monism.
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