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Meanings of fragmentary character in English

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Usage of fragmentary character in English
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But the recollections of four or five years old are of a very fragmentary character.
The Life of Charlotte Brontë — Volume 1
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The breakfast was naturally of a somewhat fragmentary character.
Elsie Venner
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Accordingly, his metaphysical works have all a fragmentary character.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 08, June 1858 / A Magazine ...
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Hence the fragmentary character of its political history.
General History for Colleges and High Schools
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The Index is full, but not fuller than the fragmentary character of the material seemed to require.
Autobiography of Friedrich Froebel translated and annotated by ...
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In a work, therefore, of this fragmentary character, repetitions, necessary for the due co-ordination of ideas, are inevitable.
The Life of the Spider
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At all seasons but especially in winter the news that reached Malbaie was of a very fragmentary character.
A Canadian Manor and Its Seigneurs: The Story of a Hundred Years...
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The earthquake of 1882 did more or less damage, but the reports are of a very fragmentary character.
The American Type of Isthmian Canal / Speech by Hon. John Fairfi...
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Another factor against his wider acceptance has been the infrequency and fragmentary character of his work, particularly his satire.
A Son of the Gods, and A Horseman in the Sky
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Then follow three short, abrupt clauses, which, in their hurry and fragmentary character, reflect the confusion and swiftness of battle.
Expositions of Holy Scripture: Psalms
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The whole of the phenomena show us at once the fragmentary character of this Gospel as stamped upon the very surface.
Expositions of Holy Scripture: St. John Chaps. XV to XXI
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Perhaps the fact that most of us wrote in this way accounted for the rather sketchy and fragmentary character of our "Magazine."
A New England Girlhood, Outlined from Memory (Beverly, MA)
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Hence, of course, is due the confused and fragmentary character of those bewildering entries; hence, at the same time, too, their truth and value.
The Centaur
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Its fragmentary character lies in this: that, while very explicit as a record of feeling and motive, it is entirely vague in respect to acts.
A Handbook to the Works of Browning (6th ed.)
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If this is so, it would seem to follow from the very fragmentary character of our recollections that our sense of identity is very incomplete.
Illusions: A Psychological Study
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And now, perhaps, we may say something of the thoughts of our philosopher, though at present it cannot be more than of a fragmentary character.
Morality as a Religion / An exposition of some first principles
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