fragmentary

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It may not be amiss to quote here the words of one of the greatest of the ancients whose works--fragmentary, alas--have come down to us Wealth has accumulated itself into masses; and poverty, also in accumulation enough, lies impassably separated from it; opposed, uncommunicating, like forces in positive and negative poles.

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  1. adjective Consisting of small, disconnected parts: a picture that emerges from fragmentary information.

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  • That portion of his Memoirs in which he speaks of it is very short and fragmentary, and the defect is not supplied by his letters. —  The Project Gutenberg eBook of Gibbon, by James Cotter Morison
  • The starting point is the notion that historical records are incomplete, fragmentary, and scattered, and some very science-fictionally interesting things may have happened in the past. —  Magazine - Analog Science Fiction and Fact - 2007 - Issue 04 - April
  • But this third book is fragmentary, and the continuity of Cotta's argument is broken by considerable gaps in all the manuscripts. —  Cicero
  • The artistic conception of the book is too slight and fragmentary, and it gives the impression of being unfinished in execution and desultory in purpose. —  George Eliot; A Critical Study of Her Life, Writings and Philosophy
  • Note - These visions recorded by myself are quite insuffi - cient, fragmentary, and concentration bad. —  The Book Of THoTH, Popular Articles from The Archive Category - UFO Section 1
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