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Definition of unities : of Unity

Synonyms:

congruities, entireties, atoms, unions, embodiments, congruences, coincidences, simplicities, elements, identities

Usage examples:

• Thus Christ Jesus the Lord takes His place fourth in this list of unities, between hope and faith, between the Spirit and the Father. - "The Expositor's Bible: Ephesians", G. G. Findlay.
• The Greek Unities, for instance, were not proper objects of the meticulous and trivial imitation of Seneca or Gabriel Harvey. - "George Bernard Shaw", Gilbert K. Chesterton.
• Such was the form which the Elizabethan drama inherited, and to the end the form of Elizabethan tragedy continued a development from medieval tradition and practice, not only in its failure to adopt the unities, the chorus, and other peculiarities of classical structure, but, more essentially, in its continued inability to restrict the story provided by a narrative source to the limits of a dramatic fable. - "Tragedy", Ashley H. Thorndike.