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vividities
- plural of vividity
1823, AUTHOR UNKNOWN, The Lady’s magazine (and museum). Improved ser., enlarged, page 266:…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))
- 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, page 120: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.
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