Meanings
- obsoleteuncountableAbundant activity.
the time present being urgent and raging like a Lion through its instant actuosity
1660, H[enry] More, An Explanation of the Grand Mystery of Godliness; […], London: […] J[ames] Flesher, for W[illiam] Morden […], →OCLC1 more example
As soon as the religious leaves the existential present, where it is sheer actuosity, it immediately becomes milder. The process of religion's becoming milder and thereby less true is directly recognizable by its becoming a doctrine. As soon as it becomes doctrine, the religious does not have absolute urgency.
1975, Howard V. Hong, Edna H. Hong (translators), Søren Kierkegaard's Journals and Papers, volume 4, page 296
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