orientality
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]orientality (uncountable)
- The quality of being oriental.
- 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:
- Whose revolution being regular, it hath no power nor efficacy peculiar from its orientality, but equally disperſeth his beams
References
[edit]- “orientality”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.