Obelus vs Vividities - What's the difference?
obelus | vividities |
A mark (÷ ) used to represent division in mathematics. Also used to indicate a written or printed passage, and in ancient manuscripts to mark a word or passage as spurious or doubtful.
A dagger mark († ) used as a reference mark in printed matter, or to indicate that a person is deceased, often used to indicate a footnote.
* 1823 : AUTHOR UNKNOWN, The Lady’s magazine (and museum). Improved ser., enlarged ,
* 1925 : Joseph Conrad, The Complete Works of Joseph Conrad ,
* 1977 : Angus Wilson & John Holloway, Writers of East Anglia ,
* 1995 : Joseph Conrad, The Collected Works of Joseph Conrad ,
As nouns the difference between obelus and vividities
is that obelus is a mark (÷ ) used to represent division in mathematics also used to indicate a written or printed passage, and in ancient manuscripts to mark a word or passage as spurious or doubtful while vividities is .obelus
English
(wikipedia obelus)Noun
(en-noun)See also
* (l)Anagrams
* *vividities
English
Noun
(head) (p)p266
- …and the vividities of passion, the writer may not have known how to procure the morrow’s sustenance.
p255]
- At every momentary pause in his long and fantastic adventure it returned with its splendid charm and glorious serenity, resembling the power of a great and unfathomable love whose tenderness like a sacred spell lays to rest all the vividities and all the violences of passionate desire.
p120
- We are the echoes from the planets,
- ??the blackbody vividities ,
- ??and the high-energy tailing
- ??that flows from the springs of time. [?…]
p255?†
- At every momentary pause in his long and fantastic adventure it returned with its splendid charm and glorious serenity, resembling the power of a great and unfathomable love whose tenderness like a sacred spell lays to rest all the vividities and all the violences of passionate desire.