quinity
/ˈkwɪnɪti/
quinity noun: synonym of quintet: A group of five.
Noun
quinity (countable and uncountable, plural quinities)
- Synonym of quintet: A group of five.
- His subject is a "strange image" among the llth century drawings of the Winchester school, which he calls a quinity. But what is a quinity? Let me explain it in his own words: "It is a Quaternity of God the Father, the Son, St. Mary, and the Holy Ghost; or, if we add the Infant on the lap of the...1997, Ernst Kantorowicz: Erträge Der Doppeltagung Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt, page 100
- In 1947, for example, in a wonderful study of the "quinity" of Winchester, Kantorowicz interprets an astonishing sketch in a book of offices (officia) copied in Winchester at the beginning of the eleventh century. He invents the term quinity to describe a curious composition showing the Holy...2001, Kantorowicz: Stories of a Historian
- Synonyms:
- quintet
- Synonym of fiveness: The state of being five or having 5 parts.
- Synonyms:
- fiveness
Examples of quinity in a sentence
- His subject is a "strange image" among the llth century drawings of the Winchester school, which he calls a quinity.1997, Ernst Kantorowicz: Erträge Der Doppeltagung Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt...
- He invents the term quinity to describe a curious composition showing the Holy Family, in which there appear two identical representations of the divinity side by side.2001, Kantorowicz: Stories of a Historian:
- It is thus of particular interest to find the Trinity and the Incarnation combined in one medallion in the so- called Quinity of Winchester, of 1023-1035 (fol.75v- fig. 119)195.2004, Scriptoria in Medieval Saxony: St. Pancras in Hamersleben, page 142:
Synonyms of quinity
Forms of quinity
| plural | quinities |
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Origin of quinity
From Latin quīnitās, from quīnī (“five each”).
Questions about quinity
- What does quinity mean?
- Quinity means synonym of quintet: A group of five.
- How do you use quinity in a sentence?
- His subject is a "strange image" among the llth century drawings of the Winchester school, which he calls a quinity.
- What part of speech is quinity?
- Quinity is a noun.
- How do you pronounce quinity?
- Quinity is pronounced /ˈkwɪnɪti/.
- What is the plural of quinity?
- The plural of quinity is quinities.
Words near quinity in the dictionary
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