n.; pl. Communities [ L. communitas: cf. OF. communité. Cf. Commonalty, and see Common. ] 1. Common possession or enjoyment; participation; as, a community of goods. [ 1913 Webster ]

The original community of all things. Locke. [ 1913 Webster ]

An unreserved community of thought and feeling. W. Irving. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A body of people having common rights, privileges, or interests, or living in the same place under the same laws and regulations; as, a community of monks. Hence a number of animals living in a common home or with some apparent association of interests. [ 1913 Webster ]

Creatures that in communities exist. Wordsworth. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Society at large; a commonwealth or state; a body politic; the public, or people in general. [ 1913 Webster ]

Burdens upon the poorer classes of the community. Hallam. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ In this sense, the term should be used with the definite article; as, the interests of the community. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Common character; likeness. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

The essential community of nature between organic growth and inorganic growth. H. Spencer. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. Commonness; frequency. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Eyes . . . sick and blunted with community. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A lack of common possessions, properties, or relationship. [ 1913 Webster ]

Community of embryonic structure reveals community of descent; but dissimilarity of embryonic development does not prove discommunity of descent. Darwin. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A state of separation or disunion; want of unity. Dr. H. More. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Immunities [ L. immunitas, fr. immunis free from a public service; pref. im- not + munis complaisant, obliging, cf. munus service, duty: cf. F. immunité. See Common, and cf. Mean, a. ] 1. Freedom or exemption from any charge, duty, obligation, office, tax, imposition, penalty, or service; a particular privilege; as, the immunities of the free cities of Germany; the immunities of the clergy. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Freedom; exemption; as, immunity from error. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The state of being insusceptible to disease, certain poisons, etc. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n.; pl. Importunities [ L. importunitas unsuitableness, rudeness: cf. F. importunité. ] The quality of being importunate; pressing or pertinacious solicitation; urgent request; incessant or frequent application; troublesome pertinacity. [ 1913 Webster ]

O'ercome with importunity and tears. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. impunitas, fr. impunis without punishment; pref. im- not + poena punishment: cf. F. impunité. See Pain. ] Exemption or freedom from punishment, harm, or loss. [ 1913 Webster ]

Heaven, though slow to wrath,
Is never with impunity defied. Cowper. [ 1913 Webster ]

The impunity and also the recompense. Holland. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Lack of opportunity; unseasonableness; inconvenience. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Intercommunication; community of possessions, religion, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

In consequence of that intercommunity of paganism . . . one nation adopted the gods of another. Bp. Warburton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality of being jejune; jejuneness. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Immunity. ] Freedom; security; immunity. [ Obs. ] W. Montagu. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Opportunities [ F. opportunité, L. opportunitas. See Opportune. ] 1. Fit or convenient time or situation; a time or place permitting or favorable for the execution of a purpose; a suitable combination of conditions; suitable occasion; chance. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Convenience of situation; fitness. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Hull, a town of great strength and opportunity, both to sea and land affairs. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Importunity; earnestness. [ Obs. ] Jer. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Occasion; convenience; occurrence. -- Opportunity, Occasion. An occasion is that which falls in our way, or presents itself in the course of events; an opportunity is a convenience or fitness of time, place, etc., for the doing of a thing. Hence, occasions often make opportunities. The occasion of sickness may give opportunity for reflection. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Trinity, and Unity. ] Triunity; trinity. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

As for terms of trinity, triniunity, . . . and the like, they reject them as scholastic notions. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality or state of being triune; trinity. Dr. H. More. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Unities [ OE. unite, F. unité, L. unitas, from unus one. See One, and cf. Unit. ] 1. The state of being one; oneness. [ 1913 Webster ]

Whatever we can consider as one thing suggests to the understanding the idea of unity. Locks. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Unity is affirmed of a simple substance or indivisible monad, or of several particles or parts so intimately and closely united as to constitute a separate body or thing. See the Synonyms under Union. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Concord; harmony; conjunction; agreement; uniformity; as, a unity of proofs; unity of doctrine. [ 1913 Webster ]

Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity! Ps. cxxxiii. 1. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Math.) Any definite quantity, or aggregate of quantities or magnitudes taken as one, or for which 1 is made to stand in calculation; thus, in a table of natural sines, the radius of the circle is regarded as unity. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The number 1, when it is not applied to any particular thing, is generally called unity. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Poetry & Rhet.) In dramatic composition, one of the principles by which a uniform tenor of story and propriety of representation are preserved; conformity in a composition to these; in oratory, discourse, etc., the due subordination and reference of every part to the development of the leading idea or the eastablishment of the main proposition. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ In the Greek drama, the three unities required were those of action, of time, and of place; that is, that there should be but one main plot; that the time supposed should not exceed twenty-four hours; and that the place of the action before the spectators should be one and the same throughout the piece. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. (Fine Arts & Mus.) Such a combination of parts as to constitute a whole, or a kind of symmetry of style and character. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. (Law) The peculiar characteristics of an estate held by several in joint tenancy. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The properties of it are derived from its unity, which is fourfold; unity of interest, unity of title, unity of time, and unity of possession; in other words, joint tenants have one and the same interest, accruing by one and the same conveyance, commencing at the same time, and held by one and the same undivided possession. Unity of possession is also a joint possession of two rights in the same thing by several titles, as when a man, having a lease of land, afterward buys the fee simple, or, having an easement in the land of another, buys the servient estate. [ 1913 Webster ]

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At unity, at one. --
Unity of type. (Biol.) See under Type. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Union; oneness; junction; concord; harmony. See Union. [ 1913 Webster ]