1977 Ernest Buckler, Alan Young, The Cruelest Month, page 147:
Their simple animacies, elsewhere a background unfelt, here tingled in them as entities. Sheila's snubs had loosened the lint on them and the wash of woods…
1987 Janice Kulyk Keefer, Under Eastern Eyes: A Critical Reading of Maritime Fiction, page 81:
…together release a 'gentle acid wash' in which the would-be lovers' 'simple animacies ' are at last allowed to 'tingl[e] in them as entities' (CM 147). …
1993 John Frow, Meaghan Morris, Australian Cultural Studies: A Reader, page 93:
…causation for the death of the young woman is located outside of society, and outside history — in (super) natural forces or extra-human animacies. …
2001 Algonquian Indians, Papers of the Algonquian Conference, page 397:
The animacies of terms not given in the dictionary are determined by their agreement patterns (plural endings, demonstratives, or verbal agreement) within…
2003, Berkeley Linguistics Society Annual meeting, Paweł M. Nowak, Corey Yoquelet, David Mortensen, General Session: And Parasession on Phonetic Sources of Phonological Patterns : Synchronic and Diachronic Explanations, page 181:
…these languages are derived by local conjunction of the subhierarchies on the animacies of the subject and object and object topicality: (27) Table 3. …
2005 Randall Stevenson, The Last of England?: Volume 12: 1960-2000: The Last of England?, page 571:
…1987) suggested in its title the interests of poetry which traced powerful animacies in the natural world and their resonances with the human psyche. …