Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Lack of form; shapelessness.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete Lack of regular form; shapelessness.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun obsolete Absence of regular
form ;shapelessness .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Wouldn't that mean you're less ill-informed than you might have been had your ill-informity been allowed to grow at a regular, un-stunted rate?
Bush is "simply too stuntedly ill-informed and reality-detached." Ann Althouse 2007
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I think extremity in opinion is in itself indicative of stunted ill-informity and reality detachment.
Bush is "simply too stuntedly ill-informed and reality-detached." Ann Althouse 2007
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Wouldn't that mean you're less ill-informed than you might have been had your ill-informity been allowed to grow at a regular, un-stunted rate?
Bush is "simply too stuntedly ill-informed and reality-detached." Ann Althouse 2007
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Thee: nor of anything not Thine, or which was before, but of concreated matter, because Thou didst create its informity without any interposition of time. '
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman 1840-1916 1913
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Of this writer he says that 'abating the annual mutation of sexes in the hyæna, the single sex of the rhinoceros, the antipathy between two drums of a lamb's and a wolf's skin, the informity of cubs, the venation of centaurs, and some few others, he may be read with delight and profit.'
Hours in a Library, Volume I. (of III.) Leslie Stephen 1868
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