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noun
Immediacy  n.  The relation of freedom from the interventionof a medium; immediateness.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Immediacy" Quotes from Famous Books



... Divinity School, he roused a storm of disapproval. "A tempest in our washbowl," he wrote coolly to Carlyle, but it was more than that. The great sentence of the Divinity School address, "God is, not was; he speaketh, not spake," was the emphasis of a superb rhetorician upon the immediacy of the soul's access to God. It has been the burden of a thousand prophets in all religions. The young priests of the Divinity School, their eyes wearied with Hebrew and Greek, seem to have enjoyed Emerson's injunction to turn away from past records and historical authorities and ...
— The American Spirit in Literature, - A Chronicle of Great Interpreters, Volume 34 in The - Chronicles Of America Series • Bliss Perry



Words linked to "Immediacy" :   rapidity, instantaneousness, quickness, immediate, directness, immediateness, rapidness, intuition, mediate, straightness, mediacy



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