materialities
- plural of materiality.
Example Sentences
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The arc of descent ends in materialities, and the arc of ascent ends in spiritualities.
From Some Answered Questions by `Abdu'l-Bahá
His New Year's message to the Legislature opened with a businesslike discussion of the State's finances and other materialities.
From The Negro and the Nation A History of American Slavery and Enfranchisement by Merriam, George Spring
What this country longs for is personalities, grand persons, to counteract its materialities.
From Ralph Waldo Emerson by Holmes, Oliver Wendell
"With the great, one's thoughts and manners easily become great; ... what this country longs for is personalities, grand persons, to counteract its materialities," says Emerson.
From Famous American Statesmen by Bolton, Sarah Knowles
His clothes were a necessary envelope, to which he paid not the slightest attention, for his eyes looked too high among the clouds to concern themselves with such materialities.
From A Daughter of Eve by Balzac, Honoré de
