Meaning of esemplasy | Babel Free

Definitions

The quality of being esemplastic or unifying.

uncountable

Examples

“1852: Neither of them possessed that gift, which Schelling endeavoured to express⟳ by the term Eseinsbildung [sic; read⟳ ineinsbildung], and Coleridge by the term esemplasy—the power, that is, of infusing into the various parts of a subject an ever-present unity. — Fraser's Magazine vol. 46 65”

“2004: involved not just cerebration or raw IQ but actual sagacity or virtue or wisdom or as Coleridge would had it esemplasy — David Foster Wallace, Another Pioneer (Little, Brown and Company 2004, p. 120)”

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