Literary notes about various (AI summary)
The term "various" is often employed in literature to evoke a sense of diversity or multiplicity without the need for exhaustive enumeration. In some works, it emphasizes the broad array of contributors or components, as when an author notes essays by various writers [1] or offerings deposited in a consort [2]. More broadly, it signifies complex assortments—ranging from differing philosophical or moral principles [3] and species of mangrove [4] to a spectrum of emotions associated with life and death [5]. Whether cataloguing details of societal institutions [6] or conveying multifaceted experiences like those in [7] and [8], the adjective succinctly signals a world of diverse elements that enrich the text's overall tapestry.
- An argument against socialism and socialistic legislation, consisting of an introduction by Herbert Spencer and essays by various writers, p. 24.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. Burgess and Robert Ezra Park - d his consort, within which are deposited various offerings, chiefly iron lamps and the notched sticks used as weighing-machines.
— from Omens and Superstitions of Southern India by Edgar Thurston - The efficacy of various principles is now well understood, which were either not known at all, or imperfectly known to the ancients.
— from The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton and John Jay and James Madison - 293 Mangrove, of various species, chiefly Rhizophoreæ .
— from Malay Magic by Walter William Skeat - So various are the feelings with which different persons draw near to death; and still more various the forms in which imagination clothes it.
— from Phaedo by Plato - It is these two criteria combined which have determined the relative ranks of the various castes in the Hindu social scale.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. Burgess and Robert Ezra Park - We spent the time by talking with interest on various topics till Cesarino and the husband came back.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova - His thoughts were of the most various, but the end of all his thoughts was the same—death.
— from Anna Karenina by graf Leo Tolstoy