informity

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Absence of regular form; shapelessness. countable,obsolete,uncountable
    — There may I confesse from this narrow time of gestation ensue a minority or smalnesse in the exclusion, but this however inferreth no informity, and it still receiveth the name of a naturall and legitimate birth; whereas if we affirme a totall informity, it cannot admit so forward a terme as an Abortment; for that supposeth conformation; and so we must call this constant and intended act of nature, a slip or effluxion, that is an exclusion before conformation; before the birth can bear the name of the parent, or be so much as properly called an Embryon.
  2. The quality or state of being informed. countable,uncountable
    — Indeed, it would have been hard to collect material with more possibilities for differing estimates among teachers who for many years had corrected compositions from a much narrower field and therefore of much greater informity both in technical accuracy and in general character.

词形变化

informities plural

词源

From Latin informitas. See inform (adjective).
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