Word: singularability
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...beginning to grey. He has a silky black mustache. His eyes are black, and rarely is there a gleam of merriment in them. His facial features suggest cruelty-a hard mask of oriental ruthlessness. He is a silent man, not given to speechifying; and behind his mask lies a singular determination...
...showers. One freshman complained that as she was sitting next to a tub on the first day of the term wearing only a man's shirt the door suddenly opened and a man walked through, pausing only to give her a bewildered glance. That occasion, however, is apparently singular...
Martin Merriedew, the hero of Mary Borden's*latest novel, You, the Jury, was a singular child. He had some inner illumination that drew people's attention to him. He spoke sometimes to his playmates about God; and sometimes he broke off play and left them, saying, "I must go now. I have to be alone." During the first World War, while still a boy. he visited wounded soldiers in a hospital near the English village he lived in, and there he felt the consciousness of a gift of healing...
...Johnson, living in a sparser age, used "scoundrel" in the singular...
Dickens used like as a conjunction; Winston Churchill says "This is me"; and authors from Shakespeare to Shaw have followed everyone with a they. Meredith wrote "Who has he come for?" and Dryden said "these kind of thoughts." Byron was forever using don't with a singular subject ("She will come round-mind if she don't"), and Lytton Strachey apparently never mastered the difference between...