Meaning of spuriosity | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Spuriousness.
   countable, rare, uncountable
2. That which is spurious; something false or illegitimate.
   countable, rare, uncountable

Examples

“Ye are next to aſſure all Perſons, vvho are ſo kind as to give⟳ you Audience, that to prevent⟳ the leaſt Suſpicion of Spurioſity, they may ſee every Letter I have⟳ ever printed of Mr. Pope’s in his Ovvn Hand-VVriting, […]”

“So she made Sir John write⟳ to the "Times" to command the Chancellor of the Exchequer for the time being to put⟳ a tax on long words:— […] A heavy tax on words over four syllables, as heterodoxy, spontaneity, spiritualism, spuriosity, &c.”

“This is the sort⟳ of struggle⟳ which proves a man's metal, and declares it sterling or counterfeit. No spuriosity, no charlatanry can stand⟳ this fiery alembic of hard-wrought and exquisite calculation, in which one mathematic point⟳ or unit misplaced destroys the whole chain of reasoning, and proves the candidate a blunderer.”

“The supposition that authors have⟳ a preternatural ability to detect⟳ spuriosity in writing is as false as the comparable belief that their literary practices make⟳ them unerring as literary critics.”

“Clearly, there is no solution to the problem of spurious center-of-mass motion in the nonseparable case. Mathematically it is not even a well-defined problem. The only course is to be very careful not to draw⟳ conclusions which may be dependent on the spuriosity of the states in question⟳. In particular, the spuriosity should be checked by evaluating <Hₑₘ> for the final eigenstates.”

“Haydn spuriosities were generated by demand⟳ for [Joseph] Haydn's works and by manuscript circulation. In genres like⟳ keyboard sonatas, piano trios and songs, where manuscript circulation was light⟳, there were relatively few spuriosities.”

“In their study⟳ of American extremist groups, John George and Laird Wilcox note⟳ that although distorting or actually fabricating quotations is commonly employed by extremists, "American leftists have⟳ used spuriosities of that sort⟳ sparingly, [while] groups and individuals on the far right have⟳ raised such utilizations to a high art form⟳."”

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