Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for REG-U-LAR'I-TY
REG-U-LAR'I-TY, n.
- Agreeableness to a rule or to established order; as, the regularity of legal proceedings.
- Method; certain order. Regularity is the life of business.
- Conformity to certain principles; as, the regularity of a figure.
- Steadiness or uniformity in a course; as, the regularity of the motion of a heavenly body. There is no regularity in the vicissitudes of the weather.
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