elementarity

English

Noun

elementarity (uncountable)

(obsolete) elementariness (the quality of being elementary).
- 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:
  For, though Moses have left no mention of minerals,
  nor made' any other description than suits unto the apparent and visible creation,
  yet is there, unquestionably, a very large class of creatures in the earth,
  far above the condition of elementarity.

References

“elementarity”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

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