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Ideality

noun
(pl. idealities)
1.
The quality of being ideal.






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"Ideality" Quotes from Famous Books



... Poet King! The Laureate of the Seasons, whose rare songs Are such as lyrist never hoped to fling On the fine ear of an admiring world. Autumn, the Poet, Painter, and true King! His gorgeous Ideality ...
— Hesperus - and Other Poems and Lyrics • Charles Sangster

... give us something of a clue to his character: a strong will; great physical energy; sanguine, fanatical temperament; unbounded courage and little wisdom; crude, visionary ideality; the inspiration of biblical precepts and Old Testament hero-worship; and ambition curbed to irritation by the hard fetters of labor, privation, and enforced endurance. In association, habit, language, and conduct, he was clean, but coarse; honest, but rude. In disposition he mingled the sacrificing ...
— Abraham Lincoln, A History, Volume 2 • John George Nicolay and John Hay

... figure, a fair, open face, and a high forehead with width in the region of ideality, and she carried under her arm a long black case in which was a violin. The woman had lived in one of the valleys of the Oregon for several years, but the German girl had recently arrived in one of the colonies that had lately come to the territory under the ...
— The Log School-House on the Columbia • Hezekiah Butterworth

... peintre-animal, as he was called, delighted to epater le bourgeois, and painted his studies of the nude with a brutal reality that stripped the female form of all the beauty and grace with which the superior ideality of man has invested it. This swashbuckler of realism, who despised the old masters, denounced imagination as humbug, and would have great men, railway stations, factories and mines painted as the verites vraies, the saints and miracles of the age, was, ...
— The Story of Paris • Thomas Okey



Words linked to "Ideality" :   ideal, quality



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