10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «OTIOSELY»
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otiosely in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
otiosely and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Ideal of a Christian Church Considered in Comparison ...
... contradictories of which he had otiosely held in times past : here is a most
unexceptionable mode of abandoning early prepossessions. Or if he be
intellectually gifted, he may discern that the doctines, witnessed to him by his
conscience, are ...
William George Ward, 1844
The epithet of kinghood is constantly coupled with the epithet of seerhood, not
otiosely but in the strong, pregnant antique style. Varuna has a manifold energy,
— the hero's, and wide expression, — the thinker's; he comes to us as a godhead
...
Aurobindo Ghose, Sri Aurobindo, 1995
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Oliver Goldsmith: The Traveller and The Deserted Village:
... live otiosely, unwieldily and cumbersomely on the land, paradoxically
producing want, pangs of envy induced by the awareness of what there is to be
envied, and every desire which stupidity may give rise to in its search for
extravagance.
Luisa Conti Camaiora, 2014
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The laws of verse: or principles of versification ...
Geminus, like every other adjective (in this Ode, at least, I believe, without
exception, unless (which is by no means certain) horridi in the 6th stanza
constitutes one, is used, not otiosely as an embellishment, but dramatically or
dynamically, ...
James Joseph Sylvester, 1870
... education— than the inveterate habit of accepting truth otiosely and
speculatively, without practically holding what is professed, or even
understanding what is meant by it. . . . This intellectual fault is more or less to be
dreaded in all scientific ...
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From Particular to General Linguistics: Selected Essays, ...
... deafness, eagerness, or, contrariwise, should try to foist ֊ness on the kernels of
facility, stupidity (even if facileness and stupidness eke out a marginal existence
in the most otiosely inclusive of our dictionaries), though there admittedly exists ...
We were not created otiosely. If we are the result of a big bang, did it just explode
and from it, we were cast forth, purposelessly? If not, was it intentional? If so, why
cause us to exist at all and why give us life for no reason whatsoever and why ...
8
History of Englishes: New Methods and Interpretations in ...
My gloss implies that the first of goes with the lowermost verb is com: that is, that
the preposition occurs otiosely in both "pied piped" and stranded position, as is
common in Malory. It is conceivable that the first o/goes instead with telle.
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The British Critic and Quarterly Theological Review
It seems the outpouring of an observant and fertile mind ; and reminds us, as well
in its defects as in its merits, of the conversations of a benevolent sexagenarian,
who had seen a good deal of mankind, not otiosely and superciliously, like a ...
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Predicting the Future: An Introduction to the Theory of ...
"Tomorrow will be a day when cats are animals" is an example of the former sort;
it otiosely temporalizes a timeless fact. And "Tomorrow will be a day on whose
day-before- yesterday it rained" is an example of the second sort, since this ...
3 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «OTIOSELY»
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otiosely is used in the context of the following news items.
Come On, Multiply The Accusations!
... the institution of the Council-of-State, other than the latter's otiosely serving as a manual-fan or toothless cheering squad for the Presidency. «GhanaWeb, Jun 15»
Ghana's Poor Academic Ranking Is Not The Least Bit Surprising
Predictably, Busia would be accused of being otiosely elitist. What is at stake here, and one that may well have caused the country to place ... «GhanaWeb, May 15»
Journey to the source Gourmet Argentina
It's best to avoid the Marchigiana trimmings, which tend to mean rich sauces slopped otiosely over what's otherwise some of the best meat in ... «The Independent, Oct 11»
