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Particularité, -ie, -y, n. Also: partecular-, partiquelar- and -itté, -yté, -eté, -ati(e, -aty, and particularté. [e.m.E. particularitie a detail (1528), peculiarity (1570), etc., F. particularité, late L. particulāritas.]

1. a. Self-interest; regard to personal or private interests; private advantage. b. An instance of these. c. A private grievance or feud.Only Sc. in these applications.sing. 1549 Compl. 158/13.
The quhilk gracis … ar nocht grantit be God for thy particularite bot rather [etc.] 1555 Corr. M. Lorraine 380.
Consederane the partecularaty and effection at your grace knawis in Scotland 1561 Inverness Rec. I. 56.
Haueand na respect to particularitte or partialite 1566 Reg. Privy C. I. 490.
All particularite feid favour or affectioun set asyde 1567 Ib. 552.
All grudge querrellis and particularitie removit 1572-5 Diurn. Occurr. 140.
That my lord regent … salbe sworne … to behave himself … indifferentlie to thame … without particularitie 1578–9 Reg. Privy C. III. 79. a1585 Maitl. Q. xxv. 94.
Nother for kingis nor quenis auctoritie ȝe stryfe bot for particularitieplur. 1543–4 Hamilton P. II. 254.
Efter divisiones discord and particulariteis amangis the noble men 1565 Reg. Privy C. I. 414.
He … wes nevir … previe to na particulariteis we haif to lay to thair charge 1567 Reg. Morton I. 23.
Seing men now this bissy … to ground the occasioun of thair particulariteis on his persoun 1570 Cal. Sc. P. III. 516.
Be reason he had so gret respect to his awine particularatis that … he necleckit sum pert his dewate 1585–6 Reg. Privy C. IV. 47. c1610 Melville Mem. 94.
Some variance … partly for religion myxt with some vther particulartez Ib. 148.
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2. a. The details collectively, or b. a detail, of a statement or account, or of an affair or a person's affairs.When qualified by a personal possessive, in ambiguity with prec. sense.a. 1567 Sel. MSS. Q. Mary 178.
The marriage … the particularitie quhairof it wer superfleu for us to reciteb. 1583 Wemyss Corr. 29.
Becaus it is vncertane to ws quhen we may spair that laisar quhilk the hearing of your particulariteis will require 1586-7 Rait & Cameron King James's Secret 140.
To discourse unto your lordship the particulariteis of sindrie thingis that I have trystit for yow 1592 Cal. Sc. P. X. 758.
Thay [the news] wair suner heir in theis countray with other partiquelarytes a1597-1617 Hist. Jas. VI (1825) 251.
The particulareteis I will omit till a better occasion 1615 Highland P. III. 201.
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