cecity

After light's term, a term of cecity: the best hope for the future, that light will return and banish the follies, sophistries, delusions, which have accumulated in the darkness.

Matthew Arnold Russell, G W E 1904

You have divine insights, as we all have, of heaven, all of us with whom the mortal mind does not cake and obstruct into cecity.

The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning Browning, Elizabeth B 1898

After light's term, a term of cecity: the best hope for the future, that light will return and banish the follies, sophistries, delusions, which have accumulated in the darkness.

Matthew Arnold George William Erskine Russell 1886

I can only marvel at the utter want of comprehension and appreciation with which this critic read what he wrote about: one hemisphere of his brain must have been otherwise occupied and his mental cecity makes him a phenomenon even amongst reviewers.

Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855

You have divine insights, as we all have, of heaven, all of us with whom the mortal mind does not cake and obstruct into cecity.

The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Volume II Elizabeth Barrett Browning 1833

‘cecity’ (Hooker), ‘fastide’ and ‘trutinate’ (_State Papers_),

English Past and Present Richard Chenevix Trench 1846

Mu’ezzin is preferred, and many ridiculous stories are told about men who for years have counterfeited cecity to live in idleness [.] 61 I have illustrated this chapter, which otherwise might be unintelligible to many, by a plan of the

Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah 2003