Severalty

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The sole ownership of property by someone. countable, uncountable
  2. 2
    exclusive individual ownership wordnet
  3. 3
    The quality of being several or separate. countable, uncountable

    "[…] thus a joint submission to arbitrament may be taken severally in respect of the severalty of the causes."

  4. 4
    the state of being several and distinct wordnet

Synonyms

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discretenessdiscretenessdistinctnessseparateness

Example

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"[…] thus a joint submission to arbitrament may be taken severally in respect of the severalty of the causes."

Etymology

From several + -ty.

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