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Quantification n. Modification by a reference to quantity; the introduction of the element of quantity. "The quantification of the predicate belongs in part to Sir William Hamilton; viz., in its extension to negative propositions."

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... grotesque as its arrangement would probably have seemed to an Augustan, its peculiarities are superadded to, not substituted for, the requirements of classical prosody. The writer does not avail himself of the new accentual quantification, and his other licences are but few. If we examine the poem, however, we shall find that, besides the abundant use of rhyme—interior as well as final—he avails himself of all those artifices of what may be called word-music, suggesting beauty by a ...

— The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory - (Periods of European Literature, vol. II) • George Saintsbury

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Words linked to "Quantification" : graduation, limitation, quantify, measuring, measure, gradation, measurement, functional calculus, mensuration, restriction, predicate calculus