particularity

A particular thing.countableuncountable

• In this particularity vvhereof vve novv ſpeake, ſee hovv his Mercy and Truth are met together, and doe moſt lovingly embrace each other.
• [I]f they never hear plain truth from men, they see the best of every thing, in every kind, and they see things so grouped and amassed as to infer easily the sum and genius, instead of tedious particularities.

A distinctive characteristic or quality; a peculiarity.countableuncountable

• Donny’s obsession for trains is just a harmless particularity of his.

A particular case or matter.countableobsoleteuncountable

• Novv let the generall Trumpet blovv his blaſt, / Particularities, and pettie ſounds / To ceaſe.
• [W]e Chriſtians, vnto vvhom it is reuealed in particularity, that all Men came from one Lumpe of Earth; […]

The condition of being particular rather than general or universal; specificity.countableuncountable

• An indefinite Propoſition, is, vvhen no Note, either of Univerſality or Particularity, is prefixed to a Subject, vvhich is in its ovvn Nature general; as, a Planet is ever changing its Place: Angels are noble Creatures.

The condition of being particular rather than general or universal; specificity.; The doctrine of the incarnation of God as Jesus occurring at a particular place and time.countableuncountable

The condition of being particular rather than general or universal; specificity.; Synonym of particularism (“the principle that only certain people are chosen by God for salvation”).Judaismcountableobsolete

Attention to detail; fastidiousness.countableuncountable

• There is no part of the Goſpel vvrit vvith ſo copious a Particularity, as the Hiſtory of his [Jesus's] Sufferings and Death; as there vvas indeed no part of the Goſpel ſo important as this is.

The condition of being special; peculiarity, specialness.countableobsoleteuncountable

• To pass my evenings in so sweet a conversation, and have the esteem of a woman of your merit, has in it a particularity of happiness no more to be expressed than returned.

The condition of being special in an unexpected way; oddness, strangeness; (countable) an instance of this.countableobsoleteuncountable

• No man ought to be tolerated in a habitual humour, whim, or particularity of behaviour, by any who do not wait upon him for bread.
• Lucy looks at her uncle as if ſhe could hardly excuſe his particularities; but Mrs. Shirley has alvvays ſomething to ſay for him.

The paying of particular close attention to someone; (countable) an instance of this.countableobsoleteuncountable

• While I, to blind the world to our engagement, was behaving one hour with objectionable particularity to another woman, was she to be consenting the next to a proposal which might have made every previous caution useless?