amorphism
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Origin of amorphism
1850–55; < German Amorphismus < Greek ámorph ( os ) amorphous + -ismos -ism
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Amorphism, a-mor′fizm, n. a state of being amorphous or without crystallisation even in the minutest particles.—adj.
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"Amorphism" and "Pan-destruction" are not articles of a rational creed, but they were propagated with almost preternatural energy by Bakunin.
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Bakunin, M., in Italy, 57;Hegelian, 261; with German Hegelians, 261; escape, 273; in London, 274; Amorphism, 274; Lyons insurrection, 278; in Zurich, 278.
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The phenomena which are produced in both methods of tempering may be interpreted in different ways, but it seems likely that there is a molecular approximation, an amorphism from which results the homogeneity that is due to the absence of crystallization.
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In Plato's day, the Heraclitean flux, so deep down in nature itself— the flood, the fire—seemed to have laid hold on man, on the social and moral world, dissolving or disintegrating opinion, first principles, faith, establishing amorphism, so to call it, there also.
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