Esemplasy

//ɛˈsɛmpləsi//

"Esemplasy" in a Sentence (2 examples)

1852: Neither of them possessed that gift, which Schelling endeavoured to express by the term Eseinsbildung [sic; read ineinsbildung], and Coleridge by the term esemplasy—the power, that is, of infusing into the various parts of a subject an ever-present unity. — Fraser's Magazine vol. 46 65

2004: involved not just cerebration or raw IQ but actual sagacity or virtue or wisdom or as Coleridge would had it esemplasy — David Foster Wallace, Another Pioneer (Little, Brown and Company 2004, p. 120)

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