Literary notes about amalgamate (AI summary)
Writers employ “amalgamate” to evoke both the tangible and the metaphorical merging of disparate elements into a unified whole. In some passages, such as [1] and [2], it describes literal processes like combining metals, illustrating exacting chemical reactions. In other contexts, like [3] and [4], the term conveys the joining of nations, races, or ideologies, often highlighting the challenges and complexities inherent in such unions. Authors also use it metaphorically to suggest the blending of sensory experiences and artistic influences, as seen in the merging of colors [5], or even to comment on social integration [6]. Thus, “amalgamate” serves as a versatile literary tool, bridging the concrete and the abstract to explore themes of unity and mixture.
- To amalgamate in this way take some silver bullion, or silver coin, and dissolve in weak nitric acid, only just strong enough to act upon the silver.
— from The A B C of Mining: A Handbook for Prospectors by Charles A. Bramble - Yet, if there be along with the Gold any other metal, in its metalline form, except Iron, the Mercury will amalgamate with that also.
— from Elements of the Theory and Practice of Chymistry, 5th ed. by Pierre Joseph Macquer - Money is even now compelling European nations to amalgamate into one Power.
— from The Genealogy of Morals by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche - He had, in fact, a Herculean task to perform—a double task—viz., to amalgamate two nations , and also to fuse and merge two languages into one.
— from William the ConquerorMakers of History by Jacob Abbott - But the three zones mingle and amalgamate along the edges, like the colors in the solar spectrum.
— from Notre-Dame de Paris by Victor Hugo - Still, the object of all society is to amalgamate persons of equal wealth, education, manners, customs, accomplishments, and character.
— from Pierrette by Honoré de Balzac
