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Meanings of congeries in English
Portuguese
agregação Spanish
conglomerado A mass, assemblage, or sum of particulars; something consisting of elements but considered as a whole.
Usage of congeries in English
1
It was not a congeries of separated particles, but a connected whole.
2
And this secondary or modifying congeries of facts our author announces as primary.
3
Every system is a constellation and every constellation is a congeries.
4
Because France was not a nation, only a congeries of individualities.
5
Nature is a vast congeries of mechanical substances pervaded by mindless forces of vitality.
6
The South-Sea House, remodelled, is now a congeries of offices.
7
The Dinka are a congeries of independent tribes in the valley of the White Nile.
8
The right novel is never a congeries of novelle, as might appear to the uninspired.
9
Compared with one of the Pisans' pulpits they form a congeries rather than a composition.
10
I don't feel like a ghost, and I no longer see others as congeries of atoms.
11
We were in a congeries of tents.
12
The congeries of rice fields was fringed, where the water supply had given out, with upland cultivation.
13
Lavoutte, on the right bank, is a picturesque congeries of red-tiled houses massed round a square château.
14
On examining these tufts with a telescope, they will be found to consist of congeries of stars.
15
The old Soho congeries were breaking up.
16
She looked out at the Natural History Museum, its congeries of dull brick buildings spread across several blocks.
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