Esemplastic
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /ɛsɛmˈplæstɪk/ · Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Esemplastic is an adjective meaning Unifying; having the power to shape disparate things into a unified whole.
Meaning
Unifying; having the power to shape disparate things into a unified whole.
Example Sentences
2003: he … developed a doctrine of the organic (‘esemplastic’) imagination, over and against the passive and mechanical faculty of ‘fancy’ — Roy Porter, Flesh in the Age of Reason (Penguin 2004, p. 405)
1893: all the verses when taken together … are deficient in harmony, and consequently there is little or no fusion. The esemplastic power of the writer's feeling was not strong enough, did not extend beyond the individual verse. — Hiram Corson, A Primer of English Verse (pp. 21–22)
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include unifying, esymplastic, unific, unified, unitary, undivided.
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