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esemplasy

noun · 1 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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  • /ɛˈsɛmpləsi/

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noun

Meaning 1

The quality of being esemplastic or unifying.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: uncountable

Examples

  • 1852: Neither of them possessed that gift, which Schelling endeavoured to express by the term Eseinsbildung [sic; read ineinsbildung], and Coleridge by the term esemplasy—the power, that is, of infusing into the various parts of a subject an ever-present unity. — Fraser's Magazine vol. 46 65
  • 2004: involved not just cerebration or raw IQ but actual sagacity or virtue or wisdom or as Coleridge would had it esemplasy — David Foster Wallace, Another Pioneer (Little, Brown and Company 2004, p. 120)

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