Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state of being peculiar; peculiarity.—2. The state of being set apart; appropriateness.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The quality or state of being peculiar; peculiarity.
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- noun The state or quality of being
peculiar .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Probably no more important ideal has influenced the peculiarness of our society more than the truism that comes from the Declaration of Independence:
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Well, I suppose the penguin is a pretty peculiar kind of creature when you think about it, but it's quite a robust kind of peculiarness, and the bird is perfectly well adapted to the world in which it finds itself, in a way that the kakapo is not.
Last Chance to See Adams, Douglas, 1952- 1990
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One of the many many reasons why people thought him insane was because of the peculiarity of his house which, even in a land where most people's houses were peculiar in one way or another, was quite extreme in his peculiarness.
So long, and thanks for all the fish Adams, Douglas, 1952- 1984
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The Jewish polity is only abrogated in regard of what was in it of particular right, not of common right: so far as there was in their laws either a typicalness proper to their church, or a peculiarness of respect to their state in that land of promise given unto them.
The Divine Right of Church Government by Sundry Ministers Of Christ Within The City Of London
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