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irregularity (iou)



irregularity noun. ME.
[Old & mod. French irregularite from late Latin irregularitas, from irregularis: see IRREGULAR, -ITY.]
Ecclesiastical (chiefly Roman Catholic Church). Infraction of the rules as to entrance into or exercise of holy orders; an impediment or disqualification by which a person is debarred from normal clerical functions or advancement. ME.
gen.
a. A breach of rule or principle; an irregular, lawless, or disorderly act. L15.
W. Tennant In a rude age..crimes and irregularities are more frequent. Sunday (Calcutta) There were a lot of irregularities like non-payment to teachers.
b. Lack of conformity to rule, law, or principle; deviation from what is usual or normal; abnormality, anomalousness. L16.
Lack of regularity, symmetry, evenness, or uniformity, in shape, arrangement, succession, etc.; inequality of form, position, rate, etc.; spec. in Botany, unlikeness of the petals etc. of a flower (see IRREGULAR adjective 7). M17.
b. An instance of this; esp. a part not uniform or symmetrical with the rest, as an unevenness of a surface etc. M17.
V. S. Naipaul They intended to turn all the irregularities of nature into straight lines or graded curves.