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oneness. Whatever we can consider as one thing suggests to the understanding the idea of unity. Locks.

Common possession or enjoyment; participation; as, a community of goods. The original community of all things. Locke. An unreserved community of thought and feeling. W. Irwing.

A lack of common possessions, properties, or relationship. Community of embryonic structure reveals community of descent; but dissimilarity of embryonic development does not prove discommunity of descent. Darwin.

A state of separation or disunion; want of unity. Dr. H. More.

Freedom; exemption; as, immunity from error.

request; incessant or frequent application; troublesome pertinacity. O'ercome with importunity and tears. Milton.

xemption or freedom from punishment, harm, or loss. Heaven, though slow to wrath, Is neimpunity defied. Cowper. The impunity and also the recompense. Holland.

Want of opportunity; unseasonableness; inconvenience. [R.]

Intercommunication; community of possessions, religion, etc. In consequence of that intercommunity of paganism . . . one nation adopted the gods of another. Bp. Warburton.

The quality of being jejune; jejuneness.

Freedom; security; immunity. [Obs.] W. Montagu.

Convenience of situation; fitness. [Obs.] Hull, a town of great strength and opportunity, both to sea and land affairs. Milton.

Triunity; trinity. [Obs.] As for terms of trinity, triniunity, . . . and the like, they reject them as scholastic notions. Milton.

The quality or state of being triune; trinity. Dr. H. More.

g withdrawn; withdrawal. A wrongful abstraction of wealth from certain members of the community. J. S. Mill.

all always fear that he who accustoms himself to fraud in little things, wants only opportunity to practice it in greater. Adventurer.

ist. Matt. xxvi. 63. The commissioners adjured them not to let pass so favorable an opportunity of securing their liberties. Marshall.

Any condition, circumstance, opportunity, or means, particularly favorable to success, or to any desired end; benefit; as, the enemy had the advantage of a more elevated position. Give me advantage of some brief discourse. Shak. The advantages of a close alliance. Macaulay.

ometimes naturally present in the blood or tissues of an animal), capable of producing immunity from certain diseases, or of counteracting the poisonous effects of pathogenic bacteria.

A access, or opportunity of drawing near. The approach to kings and principal persons. Bacon.