phasis

[ fey-sis ]

noun

, plural pha·ses [fey, -seez].

1. a manner, stage, or aspect of being; phase.

Word History and Origins

Origin of phasis¹

1650–60; < New Latin < Greek phásis appearance, equivalent to pha- (base of phaínein to show) + -sis -sis

Example Sentences

He possessed qualities, which, under a different phasis of society, would have developed themselves in marked acts of benevolence.

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The Indian is to be viewed here, as elsewhere, as being in the highest state of his physical, not of his mental phasis.

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The enormous apparatus of literature at the present time is suitable only to a peculiar phasis and manner of existence.

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I had seen human nature in a new phasis; and I engaged several of my school-fellows to keep up a literary correspondence with me.

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When two ages are in the same phasis, they will excite the same humours, and produce the same coincidences and combinations.

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