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    peculiarity


    1. He was employed on account of that peculiarity of his nature; as the substance of his dealings was more in the arena of corporate reconnaissance, rather than 'over the counter' business


    2. There seemed to be dozens of these huge constructs in regular intervals, as if an architect blessed with godly sight had deemed to place them all over the landscape which in itself was another peculiarity: as far as the eye could see the horizon was covered in shades of greenery, spotted in parts by yellow and red patches


    3. Q: What is the peculiarity of their teaching?


    4. the peculiarity of my toes


    5. sick, clothing and helping the poor, the peculiarity of each case being that


    6. That peculiarity, or is it oddity,


    7. that was another cultural peculiarity of the Galilean people


    8. It was the one peculiarity associated with these houses he explained


    9. her down that I understood the peculiarity of the event


    10. ‘There is also, ladies and gentlemen, another peculiarity of this case which makes it quite exceptional in my experience

    11. It's a peculiarity of the way the Company works that the jobs where you don't have to get your hands dirty are the best paid


    12. However, it is a peculiarity of Piscador biochemistry that Piscadors require the essential oil of the fish, piscoline, to produce and maintain the fatty tissues of the brain


    13. The baseball was shining white, but was a peculiarity


    14. the peculiarity of it and the fact that the Keys of David


    15. The elevator stopped on the fourth floor, a peculiarity that Feltus immediately recognized given that their suite was on the third floor, and prompted him to dash up the stairs so as not to lose her, especially now that his suspicions were insurmountable


    16. Julian was thirty but Mrs Simanovicz must have been in her seventies; had that been the problem with their son? They thought him innocent, of course, didn’t every parent? But they had to admit to his peculiarity


    17. psychical peculiarity of human character


    18. An additional very important peculiarity arises here


    19. The peculiarity here is that the divisions are not made in equal uniform intervals but proportionate to the decrease of spring force [18]


    20. This is a peculiarity of the epoch in which

    21. It is a peculiarity of parents, reflected Ingeborg, that they are always being justified


    22. A Shift that equals 328 quantum-holographous “displacements” per second is just an individual property of our brain and a peculiarity of our psychic state


    23. Despite this peculiarity, the house feels cosy, and I shall be sleeping downstairs


    24. A striking peculiarity of the line is itsflexibility


    25. I cannot define it or describe this peculiarity


    26. A peculiarity: the minaret, in the shape of a telescope has a spiral staircase on the outside circling around it


    27. the violent exploits in peculiarity that have been masquerading as originality lately


    28. Originality is more concerned with sincerity than with peculiarity


    29. And if he has not, it is a matter of opinion whether he is not better employed in working along the lines of some well-tried manner that will at any rate keep him from doing anything really bad, than in struggling to cloak his own commonplaceness under violent essays in peculiarity and the avoidance of the obvious at all costs


    30. And self-conscious seeking after peculiarity only stops the natural evolution and produces abortions

    31. But the instant we say it is a real circumstance, they assume an immediate importance, and that importance grows greater in proportion to its peculiarity in said narrative


    32. But the instant we declare it to be a real circumstance, it becomes significant, and because of its unusual peculiarity it grows in significance, for the reason that anything out of the ordinary in a real circumstance, always receives the more attention, and comment


    33. After every deduction from the doctrine on the side of its Athanasian form; after stripping the statement of the article of every special ecclesiastical peculiarity, even those of the second and third centuries,— when, as Dr


    34. There is, further, a noteworthy peculiarity in the doctrine of Christ and His apostles respecting the 'sonship, of ungodly men


    35. ’ I desire to point it out as an appalling peculiarity of Christ’s teaching, that He represents, in the strongest manner, the refusal of God to, acknowledge the 'sonship’ of 'sinners,’ or to allow of the claim that He is their 'Father’ until they repent


    36. Highly exaggerated notions are entertained by some writers respecting the peculiarity of the Greek Testament idiom: No sooner is it demonstrated that the identical terms which are employed in the New Testament books signify in the pages of Plato, in a discussion on immortality, and in all other known classical writers, literal destruction or abolition of life, than you are met with the statement that New Testament Greek has its own 'spiritual and secondary meanings,’ and cannot be rightly understood if we take its words in 'classical’ senses


    37. Accordingly every year of growing apostasy witnessed the decline of the primitive peculiarity, which attributed our life eternal to the Incarnation


    38. All the special influences of Eastern and Western thought were vigorously at work from the very beginning of the gospel to contravene the chief peculiarity of the Christian Revelation,—its declaration that immortality is the gift of God, through the Incarnation, to regenerate men alone


    39. But the Immortality revealed by the gospel is its most signal peculiarity


    40. sonal peculiarity) down the point where the stretching arrived

    41. Its deplorable peculiarity was, that it was the faintness of solitude and disuse


    42. We may note in passing, one peculiarity in regard to all the final resolutions taken by him in the matter; they had one strange characteristic: the more final they were, the more hideous and the more absurd they at once became in his eyes


    43. There was a peculiarity in his manner of shaking hands, always to be seen in any clerk at Tellson's who shook hands with a customer when the House pervaded the air


    44. Stryver remarked upon the peculiarity as if it would have been infinitely less remarkable if he had said it with his head off


    45. There was one peculiarity in Maria's mind: she was more anxious not to


    46. First among the virtues found in the State, wisdom comes into view, and in this I detect a certain peculiarity


    47. I don't know if it be a peculiarity in me, but I am seldom otherwise than happy while watching in the chamber of death, should no frenzied or despairing mourner share the duty with me


    48. Another peculiarity of taste he had, which was to present me with a


    49. Again he climbed the rocky height he had ascended the previous evening, and strained his view to catch every peculiarity of the landscape; but it wore the same wild, barren aspect when seen by the rays of the morning sun which it had done when surveyed by the fading glimmer of eve


    50. Wopsle's great-aunt's, with the pleasanter peculiarity that it seemed to come through a keyhole
































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    Synonyms for "peculiarity"

    curio curiosity oddity oddment peculiarity rarity distinctiveness speciality specialness specialty distinctive feature distinguishing characteristic notability mark feature property trait

    "peculiarity" definitions

    an odd or unusual characteristic


    a distinguishing trait


    something unusual -- perhaps worthy of collecting