Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A common termination of nouns of Latin origin or formed after Latin analogy, from adjectives, properly from adjectives of Latin origin or type, as in activity, civility, suavity, etc., but also in some words from adjectives not of Latin origin or type, as in
jollity . The suffix is properly -ty, the preceding vowel belonging originally to the adjective. See -ty.
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Examples
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It no longer becomes necessary to determine if Googlezon actually exists (although speculating on its feasibility is righton).
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Yes, but clearly mere enhanced photographic portability is not the killer app.
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All those people are fooled, and their moral positions and church histories show that their humanity is suspect too.
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That LA facility is actually the biggest garment factory in the entire United States.
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Teachers, employees, women supported and participated in Nationality struggles, the struggles for separate state.
A Maoist critique of the CPI(Marxist) Abhay N 2007
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Some of this disparity is driven by the fact that there are a lot more American (& ‘Western’) reporters in London than in Cairo.
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"More abundant in vocabulary than elegant in Latinity," was their comment, a fault they considered marking all French Latin.
Charles the Bold Last Duke of Burgundy, 1433-1477 Ruth Putnam
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“More abundant in vocabulary than elegant in Latinity,” was their comment, a fault they considered marking all French Latin.
Charles the Bold Putnam, Ruth, 1856-1931 1908
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"Well, and if I did," says his Riv'rence, "I know a sartan preparation ov chymicals that's very good for curing a brache either in Latinity or friendship."
Stories of Comedy Rossiter Johnson 1885
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Aidan Clarke, "Colonial Identity in Early Seventeenth-Century Ireland," in Nationality and the Pursuit of National Independence, ed.T. W. Moody (Belfast: Appletree Press, 1978), 57;
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