quaternity
IPA: kwˈɑtɝnɪti
noun
- (countable) A group or set of four.
- (uncountable) The state of being four.
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Examples of "quaternity" in Sentences
- With our love to the entire quaternity of you, Yours ever,
- Understanding of what is, and what to do, requires a balance of this quaternity.
- Then the Roman has implanted his dark complexion in the trinity or quaternity of bloods.
- The first section presents a model for the human identity based on Jung's quaternity, and argues that our modern psychological and social problems stem largely from imbalance between the four elements of our identity.
- Mayan metaphysics mirrored what Jung has called the element of “fourness,” or quaternity, that seems to be so prominent an aspect of the life of the unconscious collective landscape across various cultures (op.cit. at 62).
- Christenson writes that quaternity is still evident in Maya ritual today: “The placement of offerings at the four corners and center of a house is a common Maya practice, the sacrificial animals serving as the spirit co-essence of the house and of those who live and work within it.”
- And to draw the last of my title quaternity into the discussion, Edward Tufte proposes as a “grand truth about human behvior that, as Van Wyck Brooks said, “It is a principle that shines impartially on the just and the unjust that once you have a point of view all history will back you up.”
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