OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 1371

nature

/ˈneɪ̯.tʃə(ɹ)/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
natura • naturaleza
The way things are, the totality of all things in the physical universe and their order, especially the physical world in contrast to spiritual realms and flora and fauna as distinct from human conventions, art, and technology.
I oft admire How Nature, wise and frugal, could commit Such disproportions.
In the works of nature we find, in many instances, beauty and sublimity involved among circumstances, which are either indifferent, or which obstruct the general effect: and it is…
naturaleza
The particular way someone or something is, especially
Lady. ...Glamys thou art, and Cawdor, and shalt be What thou art promis'd: yet doe I feare thy Nature, It is too full o'th' Milke of humane kindnesse, To catch the neerest way.
Vliss.: ... One touch of nature makes the whole world kin, That all with one consent praise new-borne gaudes, Though they are made and moulded of things past, And goe to dust, that…
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