Insularity synonyms

The discovery of the insularity of Greenland might again give rise to the argument as to the distinction between island and continent.

Briefly, they are to be found in the conditions of the time; the increasing insularity of the English barons, now no longer the holders of estates in Normandy; the substitution of an unpopular for a popular king, an active spur to the rising forces of discontent; and the unprecedented demands for money - demands followed, not by honour, but by dishonour, to the arms of England abroad.

He has, indeed, a true love of England, sometimes not without a suspicion of insularity, but always fresh and ingenuous.

Ultimately the Egyptians, when their insularity disappeared under the successive dominations of Ethiopia, Assyria and Persia, described themselves as rem-n-Ki.ni, men of Egypt.

It marked the emergence of the Church of England from that insularity to which what may be called the territorial principles of the Reformation had condemned her.