The old singulars survive in poetry and in the speech of villagers, but even here the nominative has disappeared and new nominatives have been formed from the oblique bases.
As in other languages of the Eastern Group, the singulars of the personal pronouns have fallen into disuse.
Nevertheless experience reduces the infinity of singulars to a certain finite number which occur as a general rule, and the knowledge of these suffices for human prudence.
Now actions are in singular matters: and so it is necessary for the prudent man to know both the universal principles of reason, and the singulars about which actions are concerned.
And since the matter of prudence is the contingent singulars about which are human actions, the certainty of prudence cannot be so great as to be devoid of all solicitude.
It is because the infinite number of singulars cannot be comprehended by human reason, that "our counsels are uncertain" (Wis.
Two singulars connected by and, when they form a part of such a disjunction, are still equivalent to a plural; and are to be treated as such, in the syntax of the verb.
The words means and amends, though regularly derived from the singulars mean and amend, are not now, even by polite writers, restricted to the plural number.
If there is any absurdity in giving a plural meaning to the singulars one and other, the following sentences need amendment: "The one preach Christ of contention; but the other, of love.
Thus friend and fiend displaced the old singulars frend and fend, both of which occur in the M.
Singulars are infinite; not actually, but only potentially.
Universals are chiefly known to us, for science is begot by reasoning from universals to particulars; yet that very comprehension of universals in the understanding springs from the perception of singulars in our sense.
Mathematical singulars or numbers can, therefore, be nothing else than zero disintegrated, or rendered real by determination.
The Whole in Singularsis the living or Organic, which again divides into plants and animals.
Numbers, however, areSingulars or finitudes, which constitute the world.
The animal is consequently a Whole in Singulars only through the feeling of self.
Every Plural resembles itself and the highest principle in essence; or, in other words, all Singulars are united through essence with the highest One.
But the soul when separated understands singulars by species derived from the Divine light, which is indifferent to what is near or distant.
Angels know singulars by universal forms, which nevertheless are the images of things both as to their universal, and as to their individuating principles.
When the subject consists of several singulars connected by and, making up a plural subject, for example,-- Only Vice and Misery are abroad.
XXIV On the other hand, the contraction of plurals into singulars sometimes creates an appearance of great dignity; as in that phrase of Demosthenes: “Thereupon all Peloponnesus was divided.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "singulars" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
