Crossword-Solution: IMPARITY 8 letters, 27 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 15

The arrangement, moreover, serves to accentuate unnecessarily the undeniable imparity of Thackeray's different books; for _Punch_ and the _Sketch Books_ are interposed between _Barry Lyndon_ and _Esmond_; while even the wild and wicked Lyndon hardly deserved to be handcuffed in the same volume with Fitzboodle, whom in the body he would have crushed like an insect.

IMPARITY, im-par'i-ti, _n._ want of parity or equality: indivisibility into equal parts.--_adjs._ IMPARIDIG'ITATE, having an uneven number of digits; IMPARIPIN'NATE, unequally pinnate; IMPARISYLLAB'IC, not consisting of an equal number of syllables.

What verity there is in that numeral conceit in the lateral division of Man by even and odd, ascribing the odd unto the right side, and even unto the left; and so by parity or imparity of letters in Mens names to determine misfortunes on either side of their bodies; by which account in Greek numeration, _Hephæstus_ or _Vulcan_ was lame in the right foot, and _Anibal_ lost his right eye.

For according to _Varro_, _Suctoninus_ and _Censorinus_, their year consisted first of ten months; which comprehended but 304 daies, that is, 61 less than ours containeth; after by _Numa_ or _Tarquine_ from a superstitious conceit of imparity were added 51 daies, which made 355, one day more then twelve revolutions of the Moon.

And though a sharper mystery might be implied in the Number of the five wise and foolish Virgins, which were to meet the Bridegroom, yet was the same agreeable unto the Conjugall Number, which ancient Numerists made out by two and three, the first parity and imparity, the active and passive digits, the materiall and formall principles in generative Societies.