idealities
- plural of ideality.
Example Sentences
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His metaphysical sense did not spring into life, so that his mind could leap the bars of German expression into sympathy with the idealities of Kant and Hegel.
From The Education of Henry Adams by Adams, Henry
As it had grown too dusky without, to see the sign, and as it had not grown light enough within to see the picture, Mr. Gradgrind and Mr. Bounderby received no offence from these idealities.
From Hard Times by Dickens, Charles
Nothing is uniform to a soul really set on the idealities of art.
From Charles Auchester, Volume 1 of 2 by Sheppard, Elizabeth
It was the genuine offspring of a young imagination, urged by the "strong necessity" of giving utterance to its bright idealities, the sighings of a heart looking beyond its lowly and lonely destiny.
From Ernest Linwood or, The Inner Life of the Author by Hentz, Caroline Lee
In dressing, she moved about in a mental cloud of many-coloured idealities, which eclipsed all sinister contingencies by its brightness.
From Tess of the d'Urbervilles by Hardy, Thomas
