secondary quality
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of secondary quality
First recorded in 1690–1700
Example Sentences
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But color is, after all, a very secondary quality as compared with form.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 45, July, 1861 by Various
"Likeness is quite a secondary quality," said Aurelle condescendingly.
From General Bramble by André Maurois
Reason, which gets so much vulgar glorification, is, after all, a secondary quality.
From Confessions and Criticisms by Julian Hawthorne
Physical courage is, after all, but a secondary quality, and needs a sublime motive to make it thoroughly sublime.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 13, November, 1858 by Various
To be vivid is a secondary quality which must presuppose the first; for vividly to convey a wrong impression is only to make failure conspicuous.
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 16 (of 25) by Robert Louis Stevenson
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