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
- 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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