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• I refers to singular which is more egoistic and arrogant. —  Yahoo! Answers: Latest Questions
• "And now we see the reason for the singular, and, to the ignorant in art, the offensive execution of Turner's figures. —  Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXVI. October, 1843. Vol. LIV.
• «Mīlle», a thousand_, in the singular is usually an indeclinable adjective (as, «mīlle mīlitēs», a thousand soldiers but in the plural it is a declinable noun and takes the partitive genitive (as, «decem mīlia mīlitum», ten thousand soldiers EXAMPLES Fortissimī hōrum sunt Germān The bravest of these are the Germans Decem mīlia hostium interfecta sunt Ten thousand (lit. —  Latin for Beginners
• But if we consider the generic or specific nature itself as existing in the singular, thus in a way it is in the nature of a formal principle in regard to the singulars: for the singular is the result of matter, while the idea of species is from the form. —  Summa Theologica, Part I (Prima Pars) From the Complete American Edition
• They were of English blood, but had been born in Germany, their grandfather having fled thither in Queen Mary's day under strong suspicion of owning a Coverdale Bible; and in the good city of Augsburg his son and grandsons had been brought up to his own craft, then known as the singular art and mystery of printing. —  Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 432 Volume 17, New Series, April 10, 1852

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