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congeries::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | aggregate, conglomeration |
| Type of | sum, sum total, summation |
Examples of congeries
congeries
It had previously been a congeries of self-contained regions, held together only politically.
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Congeries of meanings attach themselves to every noun used in an effort to dodge censorship.
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His performance is an anxious, splendidly controlled congeries of intelligence and feeling.
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In Ghent as in Florence the woolen textile industry developed as a congeries of specialized guilds.
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Banyan would find Asia had little in common with itself, a mere congeries of nations and occasional failed states.
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The bill is a congeries of compromises.
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If the Crime of the Century has to be a congeries of issues and emotions, then this is the contemporary champion.
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The name El Greco automatically conjures up a whole congeries of images, different images for different generations, different concepts for those of different critical persuasions.
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Spoken by a cynical patient in Alexander Solzhenitsyn's Cancer Ward, the statement conveys the fatalism that many people feel about the congeries of diseases called cancer.
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- Aggregate: a sum total of many heterogenous things taken together
- A collection or aggregation of disparate items
- A conglomeration; heap or mess (see congener; conger)
- Kon JEr Ez n. assemblage of items h
