Meaning

The quality of being mystic or mystical..

Example Sentences

The Count de Sinzendorf has ſhewn all Europe, that in the moſt enlightened age, perſeverance ſupported by enthuſiaſm and devotion, could recall that zeal, that Miſticity, thoſe extraordinary follies, which one would think proper only for the barbarous and dark ages.

I will endeavour to “make note” of their tenets, though many of them escaped me through their mysticity.

For three days it had been drifting. The land lay white and still under a lowering, threatening snow-cloud of dark indigo blue. It is a sky that is indescribable in its effect, and that effect is heightened by the unbroken whiteness that lies everywhere underneath it. Has any artist ever given us its mysticity, its strange gloom, its ominousness?

Flavian had caught, in fact, something of the rhyming cadence, the sonorous organ-music of the medieval Latin, and therewithal something of its unction and mysticity of spirit.

And when somebody, it never was known who, but it was said to have been Olive, suggested that it was all fate, for Violet had played the beggar-maid to King Cophetua, the brain-excitement grew acute as that attendant on solemn rites,—and, overcome with mysticity, the women lay prone before the coincidence.

That is all: the touch of “idea” in the picture—of what is unusual a little—is the introduction of that guiding angel near the child, the mysticity of the place being merely Leonardesque—accidental to the painter’s mind, its own scenery;—[…]

Whether the somewhat rugged Roman, with his inattention to small matters and to the unobvious, saw the mysticity of the early Christian service and the early Christian basilica, may be doubted; […]

We now approach a point in ancient philosophy concerning Man that is amazing for its simplicity and startling for its mysticity.

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