Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for PAR-TIC-U-LAR'I-TY
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PAR-TIC-U-LAR'I-TY, n.
- Distinct notice or specification of particulars. Even descending to particularities, what kingdoms he should overcome. – Sidney.
- Singleness; individuality; single act; single case. – Hooker.
- Petty account; minute incident. To see the titles that were most agreeable to such an emperor … with the like particularities. – Addison.
- Something belonging to single persons. – Shak.
- Something peculiar or singular. I saw an old heathen altar with this particularity, that it was hollowed like a dish at one end, but not the end on which the sacrifice was laid. – Addison.
- Minuteness in detail. He related the story with great particularity.
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