special sort

noun

printing a character, such as an accented letter, that is not a usual member of any fount Also calledpeculiararbitrary

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Some special sort of people was, as it were, secreted in response to each special appeal.

The Guide is, it must be recognized, a very special sort of reference work.

They are made from very fine and exquisitely prepared plates and printed on a special sort of paper.

They can be touched, weighed and measured; but their materiality is of a special sort whose vital reactions are as yet unknown.

As these examples suggest, insight is a name for a special sort and degree of knowledge.

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