Meanings
- pluralplural of vividity
…and the vividities of passion, the writer may not have known how to procure the morrow’s sustenance.
1823, AUTHOR UNKNOWN, The Lady’s magazine (and museum). Improved ser., enlarged, page 2663 more examples
At every momentary pause in his long and fantastic adventure it returned with its splendid charm and glorious serenity, resembling the power of a great and unfathomable love whose tenderness like a sacred spell lays to rest all the vividities and all the violences of passionate desire.
1925: Joseph Conrad, The Complete Works of Joseph Conrad, p255 (Nota bene: this citation and every one of those marked with a superscribed obelus (†) are identical copies of Joseph Conrad’s unfinished last novel “Suspense” (published posthumously in 1925))We are the echoes from the planets, the blackbody vividities, and the high-energy tailing that flows from the springs of time. […]
1977, Angus Wilson, John Holloway, Writers of East Anglia, page 120At every momentary pause in his long and fantastic adventure it returned with its splendid charm and glorious serenity, resembling the power of a great and unfathomable love whose tenderness like a sacred spell lays to rest all the vividities and all the violences of passionate desire.
1995, Joseph Conrad, The Collected Works of Joseph Conrad, p255 †
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