Citations:vividities

Noun

 * 1) Plural form of vividity.
 * 2) * 1823: A UTHOR UNKNOWN, The Lady’s magazine (and museum). Improved ser., enlarged, p266
 * …and the vividities of passion, the writer may not have known how to procure the morrow’s sustenance.
 * 1) * 1925: Joseph Conrad, The Complete Works of Joseph Conrad, p255
 * At every momentary pause in his long and fantastic adventure it returned with its splendid charm and glorious serenity, resembling the power of a great and unfathomable love whose tenderness like a sacred spell lays to rest all the vividities and all the violences of passionate desire.
 * 1) * 1928: Joseph Conrad, Suspense: A Napoleonic Novel, p255 †
 * At every momentary pause in his long and fantastic adventure it returned with its splendid charm and glorious serenity, resembling the power of a great and unfathomable love whose tenderness like a sacred spell lays to rest all the vividities and all the violences of passionate desire.
 * 1) * 1958: Joseph Conrad, The Concord Edition of the Works of Joseph Conrad — Suspense: A Napoleonic Novel, p255 †
 * At every momentary pause in his long and fantastic adventure it returned with its splendid charm and glorious serenity, resembling the power of a great and unfathomable love whose tenderness like a sacred spell lays to rest all the vividities and all the violences of passionate desire.
 * 1) * 1977: Angus Wilson & John Holloway, Writers of East Anglia, p120
 * We are the echoes from the planets,
 * the blackbody vividities,
 * and the high-energy tailing
 * that flows from the springs of time. [ …]
 * 1) * 1995: Joseph Conrad, The Collected Works of Joseph Conrad, p255 †
 * At every momentary pause in his long and fantastic adventure it returned with its splendid charm and glorious serenity, resembling the power of a great and unfathomable love whose tenderness like a sacred spell lays to rest all the vividities and all the violences of passionate desire.
 * 1) * 2005: Carola M Kaplan, Peter Lancelot Mallios, and Andrea White (including NetLibrary), Conrad in the Twenty-first Century: Contemporary Approaches and Perspectives, p192 ‡
 * Yet there is one important difference between his growing attachment to Adele and his sudden entanglement with Attilio’s band. His love only provoked a vision and consequently an unbearable degree of agitation that forced him to flee even his bedchamber at Cantelucci’s inn, whereas aboard the conspirators’ boat Cosmo luxuriates in a paradoxical “feeling of peace that had come to him directly his trouble had begun,” and that “like a sacred spell lays to rest all the vividities and … violences of passionate desire” (Su 244, 255).