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/ˌsɪŋɡjəˈlæɹətɪ/
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ˌsɪŋɡjəˈlæɹətɪ
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The state of being singular, distinct, peculiar, uncommon or unusual.
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Pliny addeth this ſingularity to the Indian ſoil, that it is without weeds, that the second year the very falling down of the seeds yieldeth corn.
I took notice of this little figure for the singularity of the instrument.
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A sub-cultural style or artifact, when adopted by the mainstream, loses its singularity. Once bell-bottoms became fashionable they were no longer a "gay style."
An unusual action or behaviour.
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When about 16 years of age I happened to meet with a book, written by one Tryon, recommending a vegetable diet. I determined to go into it. […] My refusing to eat flesh occasioned an inconveniency, and I was frequently chid for my singularity.
"Do you know," said she to Guido one morning, when, after asking her to sing, the Englishman had left the room in the very middle of her song, "that I have taken a fancy into my head, which quite accounts for Mr. Arden's singularities: it is, that I am like some one whom he loved and lost in early youth; and though the loss is dreadful, the love is yet pleasant to remember."
A point where all parallel lines meet.
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A point where a measured variable reaches unmeasurable or infinite value.
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The value or range of values of a function for which a derivative does not exist.
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Anything singular, rare, or curious.
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Your Gallerie / Haue vve paſs'd through, not vvithout much content / In many ſingularities; […]
[N]either my Birth, my Education, nor the generall courſe of my life can promiſe no ſingularitie in any part of thoſe Actes they treate of: […]
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He was badgered in that witness-box for an hour. By a distracting repetition of cross-examination he was forced to confess that he had seen and spoken to a human biped in broad daylight, yet could not recollect one singularity to distinguish this phantom from the flat mass of humanity.
Possession of a particular or exclusive privilege, prerogative, or distinction.
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St. Gregory, being himself a Bishop of Rome, and writing against the title of Universal Bishop, saith thus, "None of all my predecessors ever consented to use this ungodly title; no bishop of Rome ever took upon him this name of singularity."
Catholicism […] must be understood in opposition to the legal singularity of the Jewish nation.
Celibacy, singleness (as contrasted with marriage).
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Marriage is the mother of the world, and preserves Kingdomes, and fils Cities, and Churches, and Heaven itself: Celibate, like the flie in the heart of an apple, dwels in a perpetuall sweetnesse, but sits alone, and is confin'd, and dies in singularity; but marriage, like the useful bee, builds a house and gathers sweetnesse from every flower, and labours and unites into Societies and Republicks, and sends out colonies, and feeds the world with delicacies, and obeys its king, and keeps order, and exercises many vertues, and promotes the interest of mankind, and is that state of good things to which God hath designed the present constitution of the world.
Gradually the implication of biblical monotheism created an entailment of singularity and monogamy in sexual relations.
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Comparisons between marriage and celibacy are dubious. […] In this sense, marriage is the institution of sexual partnering whereas celibacy is an institution of sexual singularity.
David emphasized that being singular in his relationship with God relies on real ties to the community, real friendships and a real work that sustains him. As I write, I am conscious of a singularity that I live and that is supported by close friends, family, clients and religious community. Genuine relationships are crucial and provide a supportive structure of interdependence.
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the quality of being one of a kind
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that singularity distinguished him from all his companions
strangeness by virtue of being remarkable or unusual
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