differentia

Example Sentences

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Musset, who was very much of a free-lance in the contest, maintained indeed that the differentia of the Romantic was the copious use of this part of speech.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 2 "French Literature" to "Frost, William" by Various

The qualities which this general differentia has developed in French may now be enumerated.

From A Short History of French Literature by Saintsbury, George

Nam si animali nulla differentia addi posset, genus non esset; et similiter est de omnibus aliis nominibus.

From Ontology or the Theory of Being by Coffey, Peter

Find the genus and differentia in the definition of “a good book of the hour.”

From English: Composition and Literature by Webster, W. F. (William Franklin)

The differentia should include all the members that the term denotes, and it should exclude all that it does not denote.

From English: Composition and Literature by Webster, W. F. (William Franklin)