Example Sentences

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But it is upon that possibility that the general imitability of the English Government depends.

From The English Constitution by Bagehot, Walter

Here, perhaps, we may find our profit in applying a test suggested by Lowell—the test of imitability.

From Inquiries and Opinions by Matthews, Brander

If the practical part of the English Constitution could only be made out of a curious accumulation of mediaeval materials, its interest would be half historical, and its imitability very confined.

From The English Constitution by Bagehot, Walter

Those who defend the possibility of an actually infinite multitude of creatures consider this fact of the infinite imitability of the Divine Essence as the ground of this possibility.

From Ontology or the Theory of Being by Coffey, Peter