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esemplasy

/ɛˈsɛmpləsi/

esemplasy noun: the quality of being esemplastic or unifying.

Noun

esemplasy (uncountable)

  1. The quality of being esemplastic or unifying.
    • 1852: Neither of them possessed that gift, which Schelling endeavoured to express by the term Eseinsbildung [sic; read ineinsbildung], and Coleridge by the term esemplasy—the power, that is, of infusing into the various parts of a subject an ever-present unity. — Fraser's Magazine vol. 46 65
    • 2004: involved not just cerebration or raw IQ but actual sagacity or virtue or wisdom or as Coleridge would had it esemplasy — David Foster Wallace, Another Pioneer (Little, Brown and Company 2004, p. 120)

Questions about esemplasy

What does esemplasy mean?
Esemplasy means the quality of being esemplastic or unifying.
What part of speech is esemplasy?
Esemplasy is a noun.
How do you pronounce esemplasy?
Esemplasy is pronounced /ɛˈsɛmpləsi/.

Words near esemplasy in the dictionary

  1. ESEA
  2. ESEAP
  3. eselyu
  4. esemplastic
  5. esemplastically
  6. esemplasy
  7. Esen
  8. eseptate
  9. Eser
  10. eseridine
  11. eserine

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