gravity
suomi-englanti sanakirjagravity englannista suomeksi
totisuus, haudanvakavuus, vakavuus
arvokkuus
painovoima, vetovoima
gravity englanniksi
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Of an activity such as a ceremony, a person's conduct, etc.: the quality of being deeply serious and solemn, especially in a dignified manner; seriousness, solemnity; a serious or solemn thing, such as a matter, a comment, etc. (defdate)
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(RQ:Shakespeare Merry Wives) ''Shal''(quote-gloss). I haue liued foure-ſcore yeeres, and vpvvard: I neuer heard a man of his place, grauity, and learning, ſo vvide of his ovvne reſpect.
(RQ:Shakespeare Troilus and Cressida Q1) ſuch vanities, flock to them for the maine grace of their grauities: (..)
(RQ:Fuller Holy State)
(RQ:Evelyn Diary), now laying-in of her first child, a sonn (quote-gloss), which she call'd for, that I might see it. (..) She discours'd with me of many particulars, with greate prudence and gravity beyond her yeares.
(RQ:Temple Miscellanea)
(RQ:Clarendon History) (vvhere ſhort, ſevere, conſtant rules vvere ſet, and ſmartly purſued, and the party felt only the vveight of the Judgement, not the paſſion of his Judges) made them leſs taken notice of, and ſo leſs grievous to the Publick, though as intolerable to the Perſon: (..)
(RQ:Lamb Essays of Elia) Newton might have deduced the law of gravitation.
(RQ:Irving Rocky Mountains)
(RQ:Macaulay History of England)
(RQ:Hunt Autobiography)—Mathews|Mathews—Smith (writer)|James and Smith (poet)|Horace Smith—Fuseli|Fuseli—Bonnycastle|Bonnycastle—Kinnaird|Kinnaird, &c.|page=18|passage=Nothing could be more trite or commonplace than his (quote-gloss) serious observations. Acquiescences they should rather have been called; for he seldom ventured upon a gravity, but in echo of another's remark.
(RQ:Prescott Philip 2)
(RQ:Caine Manxman)
Of an activity, situation, words, etc.: the quality of having important or serious consequences; importance, seriousness.
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(RQ:Thomas More Workes)
(RQ:Hooker Laws) it vvas agreed, that he vvhich being ouercome vvith drinke did then ſtrike anye man, ſhoulde ſuffer puniſhment double as much as if hee had done the ſame being ſober. No man coulde euer haue thought this reaſonable that had intended thereby onely to puniſh the iniury committed, according to the grauitie of the fact.
(RQ:Milton Eikonoklastes)
(RQ:Burke Revolution in France)
(quote-hansard) and States House of Representatives|House of Representatives|location=Washington, D.C.|publisher=States Government Publishing Office|United States Government Printing Office|volume=93, part 2|page=1980|pageurl=https://archive.org/details/dli.ernet.74308/page/1980/mode/1up|columns=1–2|issn=0363-7239|oclc=13530005|passage=The gravity of the situation which confronts the world today necessitates my appearance before a joint session of the Congress. The foreign policy and the national security of this country are involved. (..) The very existence of the Greek state is today threatened by the terrorist activities of several thousand armed men, led by Communists, who defy the Government's authority at a number of points, particularly along the northern boundaries.|footer=(small).
(quote-journal)|quotee=Robert Patrick Roesser|title=States Equal Employment Opportunity Commission|EEOC v. of Detroit Mercy|University of Detroit|trans-title=No. 86-CV-71389-DT|journal=Federal Supplement|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20170717025615/https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/FSupp/701/1326/1474324/|location=St. Paul, Minn.|publisher=(publisher)|West Publishing Co.|volume=701|section=section I|page=1329|issn=1047-7306|oclc=17592467|passage=Regardless of the amount of the fee that I might pay, a percentage as estimated will be used to support issues to which I object. (..) Since I believe that abortion is absolutely wrong I must choose the course that minimizes the support of it. The gravity of this issue is so great that I must consider my job expendable.
(RQ:Atlantic)
(quote-book)|location=London|publisher=(...) J. Bettenham; for A. Bettesworth and C. Hitch,(nb...)|year_published=1731|page=290|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=Pz5RAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA290|oclc=1025601355|passage=Tho' ''Guicciardin'' (quote-gloss) miſtakes in thoſe Points, vve may ſafely venture to depend on all the reſt of the Circumſtances as true Hiſtory: VVhy elſe ſhould they be mentioned by a Hiſtoriographer of ſuch Gravity?
(RQ:Gibbon Roman Empire)
(non-gloss) (defdate)
(senseid) (synonym of); also, a law attempting to for the phenomena of this force.
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(RQ:Bentley Confutation of Atheism) No Compound Body in the viſible vvorld can ſubſiſt and continue vvithout Gravity, and Gravity do immediately flovv from a Divine Povver and Energy; (..)
(RQ:Burke Sublime and Beautiful)
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(RQ:Guardian): perhaps out of a desire to escape the gravity of this world or to get a preview of the next; (..)
''Dated except in'' of gravity|centre of gravity: gravity or (l); also, heaviness, weight.
(RQ:Johnson Rambler)
The tendency to have weight and thus move downwards, formerly believed to be an inherent quality of some objects.
(RQ:Bacon Sylva Sylvarum) ''Similitude'' of ''Subſtance'' vvill cauſe ''Attraction'', vvhere the Body is vvholly freed from the ''Motion'' of ''Grauitie'': For if that vvere taken avvay, ''Lead'' vvould dravv ''Lead'', and ''Gold'' vvould dravv ''Gold'', and ''Iron'' vvould dravv ''Iron'', vvithout the helpe of the ''Load-Stone''. But this ſame ''Motion'' of ''VVeight'' or ''Grauitie'', (..) doth kill the other ''Motion'', except it ſelfe be killed by a violent ''Motion''; (..)
(RQ:Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica)
(RQ:Stanley History of Philosophy)|chapter=VI|chaptername=Of Heaven|page=56|passage=Heaven ''hath neither gravity nor levity''; this is manifeſt from its motion vvhich is circular; not from the center vvhich is proper to light things; nor to the center, as is proper to heavy, but about the center.
(RQ:Glanvill Vanity of Dogmatizing) muſt perſevere in Motion, unleſs obſtructed by a ''Miracle''. Neither can ''Gravity'', vvhich makes great bodies hard of Remove, be any hindrance to the ''Earths motion'': ſince even the ''Peripatetick Maxime, Nihil gravitat in ſuo loco'' (quote-gloss), vvill exempt it from this indiſposing quality; vvhich is nothing but the tendency of its parts, vvhich are raviſh't from it, to their deſired ''Centre''.
(RQ:Hobbes Decameron) Gravity is an Intrinſecal Quality by vvhich a Body ſo qualified deſcendeth perpendicularly tovvards the Superfices of the Earth.
The quality of being unable or unwilling to move quickly; heaviness, sluggishness.
(RQ:Augustine City of God)