Synonyms for congeries


Grammar : Noun
Spell : kon-jeer-eez, kon-juh-reez
Phonetic Transcription : kɒnˈdʒɪər iz, ˈkɒn dʒə riz


Définition of congeries

Origin :
  • 1610s, from Latin congeries "heap, pile, collected mass," from congerere "to carry together" (see congest). False singular congery is from 1866.
  • Man should have some sense of responsibility to the human congeries. As a matter of observation, very few men have any such sense. No social order can exist very long unless a few, at least a few, men have such a sense. [Ezra Pound, "ABC of Economics," 1933]
  • noun accumulation
Example sentences :
  • Tim and his congeries hate the clerics, but they fear the flagellum.
  • Extract from : « Ireland as It Is » by Robert John Buckley (AKA R.J.B.)
  • Inside the congeries of glazed houses he was somewhat at sea.
  • Extract from : « The Market-Place » by Harold Frederic
  • I cannot imagine such a congeries of blunders as a war for the Poles.
  • Extract from : « Cornelius O'Dowd Upon Men And Women And Other Things In General » by Charles Lever
  • To speak Johnsonically it is a congeries of inexplicable nonsense.
  • Extract from : « The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor » by Stephen Cullen Carpenter
  • A boarding-house is a congeries of people who have come down.
  • Extract from : « Marge Askinforit » by Barry Pain
  • Emerson, it is to be feared, regarded a company of books but as a congeries of ideas.
  • Extract from : « Obiter Dicta » by Augustine Birrell
  • A substance is known to us only as a congeries of attributes.
  • Extract from : « The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 3 » by Various
  • The right novel is never a congeries of novelle, as might appear to the uninspired.
  • Extract from : « Literature and Life » by William Dean Howells
  • Scripture is not a congeries of earth-born fragments, but an organism, pulsating with divine life.
  • Extract from : « A Tour of the Missions » by Augustus Hopkins Strong
  • Our lives are a congeries of solipsisms, out of which in strict logic only a God could compose a universe even of discourse.
  • Extract from : « Essays in Radical Empiricism » by William James

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