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noun

Creation n.

The act of creating or causing to exist. Specifically, the act of bringing the universe or this world into existence. "From the creation to the general doom." "As when a new particle of matter dotn begin to exist, in rerum natura, which had before no being; and this we call creation."

That which is created; that which is produced or caused to exist, as the world or some original work of art or of the imagination; nature. "We know that the whole creation groaneth." "A dagger of the mind, a false creation." "Choice pictures and creations of curious art."

The act of constituting or investing with a new character; appointment; formation. "An Irish peer of recent creation."

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Creation" Quotes from Famous Books

... not pay it. But I have some right to it, after all, for I am a Jew. The only real nobles are Welshmen and Jews. You cannot call anything so ridiculously recent as the European upper classes a nobility. Now I go straight back to the creation of the world, like all my countrymen. The Hibernians get a factitious reputation for antiquity by saying that Eve married an Irishman after Adam died, and that is about as much claim as your European nobles have to respectability. Bah! I know ...

— A Roman Singer • F. Marion Crawford

... disaffection and a class of wire-pullers, men of property, chiefly half-castes, constantly in the background, urging the masses forward to their own destruction. Lucrative employments have satisfied the ambition of so many educated Filipinos who must find a living, that the same principle—a creation of material interest—might perhaps be advantageously extended to the uneducated classes. All the malcontents cannot become State dependents, but they might easily be helped to acquire an interest in the soil. The native who has his patch of settled land with unassailable title would ...

— The Philippine Islands • John Foreman

... are scarce out there in Louisiana. Perhaps I shall get a husband, and revenge myself on the male creation that way—" ...

— Orphans of the Storm • Henry MacMahon

... doom of frailty run through all the grades of life: rather is this earth, from the frosty top of Everest[12] to the next margin of the internal fire, one stage of ineffectual virtues and one temple of pious tears and perseverance. The whole creation groaneth[13] and travaileth together. It is the common and the god-like law of life. The browsers, the biters, the barkers, the hairy coats of field and forest, the squirrel in the oak, the thousand-footed creeper in the dust, as ...

— Essays of Robert Louis Stevenson • Robert Louis Stevenson

... everywhere, and he was known at least as far as Selkirk. Nor could his motive be revenge. No animal will give up its whole life to seeking revenge; that evil kind of mind is found in man alone. The brute creation seeks for peace. ...

— Animal Heroes • Ernest Thompson Seton

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