Meaning of arcanity | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The quality of being arcane.
   uncountable
2. Something that is arcane.
   countable

Examples

“Whatever physician has not this element of fire in its arcanity—if I may coin that word—cannot boast that he is a true and tried physician.”

“Arcanity, if there is such a noun, is not a deliberate concealment.”

“Length, arcanity and just plain dullness of some of the festival fare of foreign films certainly provide some cerebral exercise for audiences.”

“If thou’rt puzzled, go anywhere, / Seek priests or prophets, doctors for the brain, / I venture none of them can e’er explain / This love’s arcanity: like holy God / That’s three in one, ’t is more than something odd.”

“As moderns, we have a highly developed sense of the futility, even more, of the immorality of any effort to rehabilitate the pre-Enlightenment outlook. We cannot but reject at heart its capricous mysticism, its violence, its arcanity. Our sympathy with science is thus well-founded in a belief in our humanity and it is this which discourages us from embarking upon any serious revolt.”

“Here, purged of much of its arcanity and rendered in a native tradition of muckraking or investigative journalism, is the critique of Marcuse’s work in the 1960s.”

“But this Greek word for a scientific instrument reverberates with education and arcanity.”

“By this it is meant that the activities of courts are less widely reported than those of legislatures and the general, universalist language of law assuages the ideological and practical implications of legal decisions, whilst its arcanity obfuscates what is at stake.”

“On Wednesday evening, February 5, the Epsilon Pi secret society of ’93 had an initiation and spread in south University hall. Two candidates were admitted to the arcanities.”

“Let us look also at the works of Cavaliere Cristoforo Gluck, lately in the service of the Imperial Court, whose most penetrating vast genius and creative talent, is not only in possession of the most profound arcanities and recondite illuminations of philosophy and other sciences, but has developed a sense of the immensity thereof, from which rare, noble, interesting and sublime music was born, particularly French, of which he was the reformer, or, better, the autocrat.”

“I do not shy from the essentially materialistic, often hypocritical aspects of the executive-headhunting profession, but I want to make clear that as much as we corporate consultants initiate circumlocutious arcanities and the simulacra of expertise rather than its substance, we are forced into so doing by a business ethic that often can swallow nothing less familiar: the truth, for instance.”

“Thirdly, his style should be filled with literary allusions and arcanities: 'refugiendum est ab omni verborum, ut ita dicam, vilitate et sunendae voces a plebe semotae, ut fiat "odi profanum vulgus et arceo"' (118.4).”

“Windber has a chance to tie Westmont for the Mountain Conference title with a victory, but because of the arcanities in the point system used to rate the schools, Westmont will win the title outright if Cambria Heights beats Northern Cambria tonight, even though neither of those teams is going anywhere.”

“She has wisely limited her treatment to the British Isles, which contain a sufficient variety of supernatural beings to satisfy the most compulsive collector of arcanities.”

“Reactionary disinhibited inhibition reallocates arcanities in unpopularistic ismism.”

“Dunne’s otherwise excellent effort suffers from occasional impenetrable arcanities and a minor habit of repetition of the same stories,[…]”

“A curious mix of rural and urban spectators gather near the pits and along the track discussing arcanities like weight-transfer, carburetion, super-chargers and fuel-injection.”

“Both sides are lining up their experts. The experts mouth arcanities of throw-weights and numbers. They draw opposite conclusions from the same data.”

“However, it is not in Saint-Rémy that one is likely to find the true spirit of Nostradamus – in its concern for words, etymologies and arcanities – but in an area about a mile to the south of the town.[…]The one thing which his day-to-day astrology had in common with his quatrains is the tendency for them both to involve prolixity, or arcanity, of expression. A fine example of this arcanity may be seen in the section of the letter to Rosenberger, quoted at the opening of this chapter. After reading this section, one cannot help concluding that Nostradamus was being self-indulgently obscurantist.[…]How best may we summarize these complex analyses of sixteenth-century arcanities?”

“Marylebone’s previous role in my life had been restricted to humorously exploiting the tortured arcanities of its pronunciation when provincial relatives plopped their token there – a torment I would later have cause to regret while spending three university years in a city with a suburb called Penistone, and not finding out until the end of the third what I should have been saying to avoid the bus conductress’s slaps.”

“Early on they described themselves as “most sagacious investigators of the arcanities of nature and dedicated to the Paracelsan disciplines,” in an allusion to the influential Swiss doctor known as Paracelsus.”

“Other people might have formal titles, or governmental positions, have more experience with crime, or with the law, or with the arcanities of computer security or constitutional theory.”

“Use an agreed-upon abstract language to translate the arcanities of their data, business logic, operating environments and even business processes.”

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