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1751. Warburton, Pope’s Wks., III. 42. They conclude in the most extravagant and senseless inferences; such as the unreality of matter; the reality of space.
1798. Lamb, Ros. Gray, xi. Past associations revived with the music—blended with a sense of unreality.
1850. Carlyle, Latter-d. Pamph., vi. 8. Unreality is death, to Parliaments and to all things.
1880. E. White, Cert. Relig., 45. They are seen in a glory mist which throws a certain unreality over their outlines.
b. With an and pl.
1817. Southey, Fragm. Th. on Son’s Death, Wks. (1909), 741/1. They are not, though, Mere unrealities.
1843. Carlyle, Past & Pr., IV. i. The unrealities, beaten into dust, flew gradually off.
1863. E. V. Neale, Anal. Th. & Nat., 31. If time is not to become an unreality to us.
