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- Plural form of vividity.
- 1823: AUTHOR UNKNOWN, The Lady’s magazine (and museum). Improved ser., enlarged, p266
- …and the vividities of passion, the writer may not have known how to procure the morrow’s sustenance.
- 1925: Joseph Conrad, The Complete Works of Joseph Conrad, p255 (Nota bene: this citation and every one of those marked with a superscribed obelus (†) are identical copies of Joseph Conrad’s unfinished last novel “Suspense” (published posthumously in 1925); the citation marked with a superscribed double obelus (‡) also quotes thence, but is not verbatim identical.)
- At every momentary pause in his long and fantastic adventure it returned with its splendid charm and glorious serenity, resembling the power of a great and unfathomable love whose tenderness like a sacred spell lays to rest all the vividities and all the violences of passionate desire.
- 1928: Joseph Conrad, Suspense: A Napoleonic Novel, p255 †
- At every momentary pause in his long and fantastic adventure it returned with its splendid charm and glorious serenity, resembling the power of a great and unfathomable love whose tenderness like a sacred spell lays to rest all the vividities and all the violences of passionate desire.
- 1958: Joseph Conrad, The Concord Edition of the Works of Joseph Conrad — Suspense: A Napoleonic Novel, p255 †
- At every momentary pause in his long and fantastic adventure it returned with its splendid charm and glorious serenity, resembling the power of a great and unfathomable love whose tenderness like a sacred spell lays to rest all the vividities and all the violences of passionate desire.
- 1977: Angus Wilson & John Holloway, Writers of East Anglia, p120
- We are the echoes from the planets,
- the blackbody vividities,
- and the high-energy tailing
- that flows from the springs of time.
- 1995: Joseph Conrad, The Collected Works of Joseph Conrad, p255 †
- At every momentary pause in his long and fantastic adventure it returned with its splendid charm and glorious serenity, resembling the power of a great and unfathomable love whose tenderness like a sacred spell lays to rest all the vividities and all the violences of passionate desire.
- 2005: Carola M Kaplan, Peter Lancelot Mallios, and Andrea White (including NetLibrary), Conrad in the Twenty-first Century: Contemporary Approaches and Perspectives, p192 ‡
- Yet there is one important difference between his growing attachment to Adele and his sudden entanglement with Attilio’s band. His love only provoked a vision and consequently an unbearable degree of agitation that forced him to flee even his bedchamber at Cantelucci’s inn, whereas aboard the conspirators’ boat Cosmo luxuriates in a paradoxical “feeling of peace that had come to him directly his trouble had begun,” and that “like a sacred spell lays to rest all the vividities and … violences of passionate desire” (Su 244, 255).