uniformity
[yoo-nuh-fawr-mi-tee]
Origin of uniformity
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Contemporary Examples
The first time the New Zealanders played, Murray Dunn looked up into the stands and was amazed at the uniformity of it all.
Ruth felt she could chip away at it with a sharp tool and reveal nothing more than the uniformity of its composition.
“Maybe,” she hints, “Congress had something different in mind than uniformity” when it passed DOMA.
This lack of uniformity should weigh heavily in favor of the justices accepting at least one of the DOMA cases.
It dispensed with claims that DOMA would protect “uniformity of marriage” or the “traditional understanding of marriage.”
Historical Examples
A heavy flywheel was attached to give it uniformity of motion.
Heroes of the TelegraphJ. Munro
All causes are not conjoined to their usual effects with like uniformity.
Such a uniformity in every particular, is found in no part of nature.
But man was not born for the indolence of pleasure and the uniformity of fruition.
ImogenWilliam Godwin
But in political affairs there cannot be uniformity of circumstances.
Old-Fashioned Ethics and Common-Sense MetaphysicsWilliam Thomas Thornton
uniformity
- a state or condition in which everything is regular, homogeneous, or unvarying
- lack of diversity or variation, esp to the point of boredom or monotony; sameness
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Word Origin and History for uniformity
n.
early 15c., from Old French uniformite (14c.), from Late Latin uniformitatem (nominative uniformitas), from Latin uniformis (see uniform (adj.)).
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