Example Sentences

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She is here an ontologist, and she is convinced that feeling is a direct witness of the deeper knowledge and reality which man seeks in religion.

From George Eliot; a Critical Study of Her Life, Writings & Philosophy by Cooke, George Willis

"Ay, keep moving is my motto; but speaking of hard students, did my lord ever hear of Midni the ontologist and entomologist?"

From Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. II by Melville, Herman