diremption
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of diremption
1615–25; < Latin diremptiōn- (stem of diremptiō ), equivalent to dirempt ( us ) (past participle of dirimere to separate, equivalent to dis- dis- 1 + -imere, combining form of emere to take, buy) + -ion- -ion
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If we turn now to those experiences from which this inner diremption of fact and meaning is absent, we find a process that is essentially the same in kind.
From Creative Intelligence Essays in the Pragmatic Attitude by Boyd H. Bode
The diremption into soul and body, into life and death, runs through the entire narrative, also that into men and women; but the main distinction is into Past and Present.
From Homer's Odyssey A Commentary by Denton Jaques Snider
The judgment or diremption of this self-consciousness is the consciousness of a “free” object, in which ego is aware of itself as an ego, which however is also still outside it.
From Hegel's Philosophy of Mind by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
The term "diremption" has sometimes been applied to cases where leaves are thus apparently dragged out of position.
From Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants by Maxwell T. Masters
The diremption of individualities becomes explicit in those forms.
From Schopenhauer by Thomas Whittaker
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