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Nature
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nature
English
Proper noun
The sum of natural forces reified and considered as a sentient being, will, or principle.
en 1798 w:William Wordsworth Lines Written in Early Spring To her fair works did Nature linkThe human soul that through me ran;And much it grieved my heart to thinkWhat man has made of man.
III 235 The human genius is creative when it copies Nature, and imitative when it aims to invent.
219 Within was a small chamber, chilly as an ice-house, and walled by Nature with solid limestone that was dewy with a cold sweat.
4 Then he commenced to talk, really talk, and inside of two flaps of a herring's fin he had me mesmerized, like Eben Holt's boy at the town hall show. He talked about the ills of humanity, and the glories of health and Nature and service and land knows what all.
en 1935 George Goodchild Death on the Centre Court 1 She mixed furniture with the same fatal profligacy as she mixed drinks, and this outrageous contact between things which were intended by Nature to be kept poles apart gave her an inexpressible thrill.
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