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congeries

How to use congeries in a sentence. Example sentences and definitions for congeries.

Editorial note

What a pitiful congeries of overweening, delusional, self-important absurdities.

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Definitions1
Parts of speech1

Quick take

a sum total of many heterogenous things taken together

Meaning at a glance

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noun

a sum total of many heterogenous things taken together

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for congeries.

Example sentences

1

What a pitiful congeries of overweening, delusional, self-important absurdities.

2

It was a terrible, indescribable thing vaster than any subway train—a shapeless congeries of protoplasmic bubbles, faintly self-luminous, and with myriads of temporary eyes forming and unforming as pustules of greenish light all over the tunnel-filling front that bore down upon us, crushing the frantic penguins and slithering over the glistening floor that it and its kind had swept so evilly free of all litter.

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Or as Lovecraft put it,"It was a terrible, indescribable thing vaster than any subway train—a shapeless congeries of protoplasmic bubbles, faintly self-luminous, and with myriads of temporary eyes forming and un-forming as pustules of greenish light all over the tunnel-filling front that bore down upon us, crushing the frantic penguins and slithering over the glistening floor that it and its kind had swept so evilly free of all litter.

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Data currently being analyzed by Dr. David Lykken and myself, derived from a huge sample of over 55,000 Minnesota high school seniors, reveal statistically significant relationships in 91% of pairwise associations among a congeries of 45 miscellaneous variables such as sex, birth order, religious preference, number of siblings, vocational choice, club membership, college choice, mother's education, dancing, interest in woodworking, liking for school, and the like.

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Data currently being analyzed by Dr. David Lykken and myself, derived from a huge sample of over 55,000 Minnesota high school seniors, reveal statistically significant relationships in 91% of pairwise associations among a congeries of 45 miscellaneous variables such as sex, birth order, religious preference, number of siblings, vocational choice, club membership, college choice, mother’s education, dancing, interest in woodworking, liking for school, and the like.

Frequently asked questions

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How do you use congeries in a sentence?

What a pitiful congeries of overweening, delusional, self-important absurdities.

What does congeries mean?

a sum total of many heterogenous things taken together

What part of speech is congeries?

congeries is commonly used as noun.