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  • noun Plural form of originality.

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Examples

  • Gone or buried are all the local papers ` local originalities.

    Mainstream media: killing the past 2009

  • Oh, I don't think you need to worry about offending fantasy fans, especially since what you're pointing out (a sharp eye for similarities, caring about originalities) can be seen as strengths rather than failings.

    Penderwicks 2009

  • Gone or buried are all the local papers` local originalities.

    Mainstream media: killing the past 2009

  • These originalities (we use the provincial word) came from the uneasiness that his conduct toward the Duchesse de Chaulieu which grew daily less explainable, caused him.

    Modeste Mignon 2007

  • Like Bobby Kennedy, Jr. He's currently being hailed for what every lefty is calling "a brilliant piece" on how the Bush Babies stole the 2004 election, for damn sure in Ohio, in Rolling Stone, named after the McKinley Morganfield tune and not the rip-off British rock band I hope, though my hopes are often dashed when it comes to hoping for respect for American originalities.

    In Another Early Morning The Daily Growler 2006

  • I can cope w/only very few hip-hop flavas, like Citizen Cope and the like for originalities unrivaled by so much of the mainshitstream.

    Fresh like, unhh; Impala, unnh 2005

  • She was very fond of thinking and getting at the truth of things, but was so far from being pedantic, so full of youthful ways that from the first moment one began to love all these originalities in her, and to accept them.

    The Insulted and the Injured 2003

  • But to Ivan it was simply a process of refined torture, in the course of which every one of his petted peculiarities of style, the most cherished of his situations, the choicest of his originalities, were ruthlessly cut, altered, or swept calmly away: -- a perfectly correct and artistic proceeding, and agreeable to every one except the author.

    The Genius Margaret Horton Potter

  • The style is clear, crisp, sparkling, abounding in originalities of verbal combination and felicities of descriptive phrase.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 46, August, 1861 Various

  • Notre-Dame-de-Pomeriis has none of the salient beauty of any of these, and to appreciate its ancient charm, it must not be forgotten that the Provençal Cathedral has not the distinction of size or the elaboration of the greater Cathedrals of Gascony, that it is far removed from the fine originalities of

    Cathedrals and Cloisters of the South of France, Volume 1 Elise Whitlock Rose

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