peculiaries

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noun

Peculiarities.

Scrabble 15

Meanings

nounpeculiaries pl (plural only)
  1. datedpluralplural onlyproscribedPeculiarities.

    India has, however, certain peculiaries of her own, which entail a relatively higher expenditure for tax-collection and administration.

    1929, Khushal Talaksi Shah, Federal Finance in India, page 190
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    Was it within the present century, or the last, that the people found out that every sacred penman has his peculiaries of both thought and expression?

    1887, Rev. E.F. Burr, “Infallible Scripture”, in Bibliotheca Sacra, volume 44, page 121

    At the same time some peculiaries in the microscopic structure of the scales of some of the fossil fishes of the coal-measures led him to investigate the subject of scale and bone-structures amongst fishes generally.

    1881, E.W. Allen (publisher), “Professor W.C. Williamson, F.R.S.”, in The Biograph and Review, volume 6, page 281

    Unfortunately, townships do not conform to the neighborhood and trade center boundaries, but the county and township population pyramids may be helpful in explaining certain peculiaries.

    1947, Wisconsin Free Library Commission, Wisconsin. Division for Library Services, “The Ecology of Rural Interaction”, in Wisconsin Library Bulletin, volumes 43-45, page 40
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