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Particularity


PARTICULAR'ITY, noun Distinct notice or specification of particulars.

--Even descending to particularities, what kingdoms he should overcome.

1. Singleness; individuality; single act; single case.

2. Petty account; minute incident.

To see the titles that were most agreeable to such an emperor--with the like particularities--

3. Something belonging to single persons.

4. Something peculiar or singular.

I saw an old heathen altar with this particularity that it was hollowed like a dish at one end, but not the end on which the sacrifice was laid.

5. Minuteness in detail. He related the story with great particularity