accidentality

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Again, accidentality may attach to the unjust in like manner as to the just acts.

From Ethics by Aristotle

Wordsworth's obsession with realistic detail is a contravention of the essential catholicity of poetry; and this accidentality is manifested in laboriously exact description both of places and persons.

From Aspects of Literature by Murry, J. Middleton

A supposed law of this sort is the negation of history itself, of that accidentality, that empiricity, that contingency, which distinguish the concrete fact from the abstraction.

From Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic by Croce, Benedetto

The accidentality lies not in the words, but in the poet's intention.

From Aspects of Literature by Murry, J. Middleton

All-inclusive, yet simple; noble, clean, luminous, stable, rigorous, true;—what more ideal refuge could there be than such a system would offer to spirits vexed by the muddiness and accidentality of the world of sensible things?

From Varieties of Religious Experience, a Study in Human Nature by James, William