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Latinity

[ luh-tin-i-tee ]

noun

  1. knowledge or use of the Latin language:

    He bemoaned the lack of Latinity among today's scholars.

  2. Latin style or idiom.


Latinity

/ 濒蓹藞迟瑟苍瑟迟瑟 /

noun

  1. facility in the use of Latin
  2. Latin style, esp in literature
鈥淐ollins English Dictionary 鈥 Complete & Unabridged鈥 2012 Digital Edition 漏 William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 漏 HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of Latinity1

First recorded in 1610鈥20, Latinity is from the Latin word 濒补迟墨苍颈迟腻蝉 Latin style. See Latin, -ity
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Example Sentences

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When Mrs. May sent him news clippings about riots in Los Angeles, Mr. Hardin responded that the media was finally seeing that 鈥渕aybe the blacks are less than saintly鈥 and lamented 鈥渢he predominant Latinity of apprehended criminals鈥 where he lived in California.

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Over the chimney again was a wide slab of marble, supported by two marble scrolls; and a tablet, on which was recorded, with very tolerable latinity, that that ch锟絫eau had been built by Francis Count of Morseiul, in the year of grace one thousand five hundred and ninety.

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Whatever it may have been in the eighteenth century, the Latin essay at the end of the nineteenth was perhaps hardly an infallible criterion of the professor-elect's Latinity, and it was just as well to discard it.

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As Hafen Slawkenbergius de Nasis is extremely scarce, it may not be unacceptable to the learned reader to see the specimen of a few pages of his original; I聽will make no reflection upon it, but that his story-telling Latin is much more concise than his philosophic鈥攁nd, I聽think, has more of Latinity in聽it.

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The Jolliffe, the lord of the manor whose claims were thus resisted by the good folk of Petersfield, was, singularly enough, a descendant of that lover of liberty and paragon of latinity, William Jolliffe, Esq.,

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