Crossword clues for unities
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Unity \U"ni*ty\, n.; pl. Unities. [OE. unite, F. unit['e], L. unitas, from unus one. See One, and cf. Unit.]
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The state of being one; oneness.
Whatever we can consider as one thing suggests to the understanding the idea of unity.
--Locks.Note: Unity is affirmed of a simple substance or indivisible monad, or of several particles or parts so intimately and closely united as to constitute a separate body or thing. See the Synonyms under Union.
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Concord; harmony; conjunction; agreement; uniformity; as, a unity of proofs; unity of doctrine.
Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity!
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(Math.) Any definite quantity, or aggregate of quantities or magnitudes taken as one, or for which 1 is made to stand in calculation; thus, in a table of natural sines, the radius of the circle is regarded as unity.
Note: The number 1, when it is not applied to any particular thing, is generally called unity.
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(Poetry & Rhet.) In dramatic composition, one of the principles by which a uniform tenor of story and propriety of representation are preserved; conformity in a composition to these; in oratory, discourse, etc., the due subordination and reference of every part to the development of the leading idea or the eastablishment of the main proposition.
Note: In the Greek drama, the three unities required were those of action, of time, and of place; that is, that there should be but one main plot; that the time supposed should not exceed twenty-four hours; and that the place of the action before the spectators should be one and the same throughout the piece.
(Fine Arts & Mus.) Such a combination of parts as to constitute a whole, or a kind of symmetry of style and character.
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(Law) The peculiar characteristics of an estate held by several in joint tenancy.
Note: The properties of it are derived from its unity, which is fourfold; unity of interest, unity of title, unity of time, and unity of possession; in other words, joint tenants have one and the same interest, accruing by one and the same conveyance, commencing at the same time, and held by one and the same undivided possession. Unity of possession is also a joint possession of two rights in the same thing by several titles, as when a man, having a lease of land, afterward buys the fee simple, or, having an easement in the land of another, buys the servient estate.
At unity, at one.
Unity of type. (Biol.) See under Type.
Syn: Union; oneness; junction; concord; harmony. See Union.
Wiktionary
n. (unity English)
Usage examples of "unities".
But how are the two unities distinct and how is the dyad a unity, and is this unity the same as the unity by which each of the constituents is one thing?
Once the idea is grasped that what we call history really means High History, that this is the history of High Cultures, and that these High Cultures are organic unities expressing their inner possibilities in the profuse forms of thought and happening which lie before us, a deep understanding follows of the way in which History uses whatever human material lies to hand for its fulfillment.
A nation has a lifespan and belongs to the strongest organic unities within a Culture.
Super-personal organic unities were here opposed, and these higher unities do not share with human beings things like reason and sentiment.
All these unities are imaginary and without real foundation, for no real result proceeds from them.
From these limited unities mentioned only limited outcomes proceed whereas unlimited unity produces unlimited result.
These limited unities are therefore signs of that great unity which will make all the human family one by being productive of the attractions of conscience in mankind.
Daisan and the Church of Unities to people who lived outside the Light of the Holy Circle of Unity.
They stress the underlying unities, and are inclined to pantheism and mysticism.
Edward Lloyd, a cunning and pious Alban merchant who had brought the faith of the Unities as well as tin into the east.
She still saw the older brother who had walked proudly into the east to bring the light of the Unities to the barbarians.
I lost my hand in the service of the God, for I set out to bring the light of the Unities to those who live in darkness.
They were no longer solitary selfish unities, but were joined together in a Oneness that was more than either of them, that was more than their sum.