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intellectualities

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  • noun Plural form of intellectuality.

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Examples

  • Shankara's philosophy may compel the homage of the intellectual, Shankhya attract the admiration of the analytical mind, Buddha capture the rationalist in search of a less material synthesis than the modern scientist's continual Annam Brahma Pranam Brahma, but these are only grandiose intellectualities.

    Yoga by Sri Aurobindo Tusar N Mohapatra 2006

  • All that was eminent in science and literature and art, the galaxy of the episcopate, the crowning intellectualities of the army, came to these rites, clad in robes and raiment that no sane person would ever voluntarily assume in public except under circumstances of extreme necessity.

    Mankind in the Making 1906

  • All that was eminent in science and literature and art, the galaxy of the episcopate, the crowning intellectualities of the army, came to these rites, clad in robes and raiment that no sane person would ever voluntarily assume in public except under circumstances of extreme necessity.

    Mankind in the Making Herbert George 1903

  • The fall of the great Lucifer from the imperial empyrean, succeeding the great conflict of the loftiest majesties of the spheres and of the towering intellectualities of the universe, was a great event.

    Autobiography, sermons, addresses, and essays of Bishop L. H. Holsey, D. D., 1898

  • Indeed, personal identity seems to be an essential part or element of intellectual natures, as without it one person cannot be known from other conscious intellectualities.

    Autobiography, sermons, addresses, and essays of Bishop L. H. Holsey, D. D., 1898

  • Say, ye elements, forces, agencies, natures, and all ye star-crowned immensities and light-begirt intellectualities of heaven, has the King of Saints lost the equilibrium of the spheres, the balances of heaven, or the end of the bright curves?

    Autobiography, sermons, addresses, and essays of Bishop L. H. Holsey, D. D., 1898

  • In this world, expressions that consist in many things form those features or idiosyncracies of character and person by which one person is known from all the rest, and who knows but that spirits, men, angels and devils, and all the intellectualities of the universe, are clothed in ethereal integuments, though imperceptible to human vision and contact, yet suited to their nature, plane and occupation?

    Autobiography, sermons, addresses, and essays of Bishop L. H. Holsey, D. D., 1898

  • According to their intellectualities their talk is of labor and capital, of working-girls 'clubs and model tenement-houses, of Buddha and Zola, of foreign titles, and transplanted fox-hunting.

    The Opinions of a Philosopher Robert Grant 1896

  • But there was a humanity in Cicero, a something almost of Christianity, a stepping forward out of the dead intellectualities of Roman life into moral perceptions, into natural affections, into domesticity, philanthropy, and conscious discharge of duty, which do not seem to have been as yet fully appreciated.

    The Life of Cicero Trollope, Anthony, 1815-1882 1881

  • And, in general, when philosophy is all compacted of delicate intellectualities and subtleties and scrupulosities, and when every possible sort of combination and transition obtains within its bounds, what a brutal caricature and reduction of highest things to the lowest possible expression is it to represent its field of conflict as a sort of rough-and-tumble fight between two hostile temperaments!

    Pragmatism William James 1876

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