celerity

Second, he used the word celerity in conversation.

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Upon the left, Brigadier Wilson, with Her Majesty's 53rd and the 30th Native Infantry equalled in celerity and regularity their comrades on the right; and this brigade was opposed to the 'Aieen' troops, called Avitabile's, when the fight was fiercely raging.

The Autobiography of Liuetenant-General Sir Harry Smith, Baronet of Aliwal on the Sutlej, G. C. B. 1903

I recall the celerity with which he used to kick them off at sundown.

The Complete Project Gutenberg Writings of Charles Dudley Warner Charles Dudley Warner 1864

I recall the celerity with which he used to kick them off at sundown.

Being a Boy Charles Dudley Warner 1864

It's good that the hits on McCain are substantive and fact based, rather then simply making character assertions like McCain's "celerity" ads, these bring factual evidence to the table.

New Obama Ad Hits McCain On Number-Of-Houses Gaffe 2009

And "there is no doubt," therefore, "that his exaggerated boldness and 'celerity' in decision making contributed to the American plunge into what General Omar Bradley was later to call 'frankly a great military disaster' and 'the wrong war, in the wrong place, at the wrong time, with the wrong enemy."'

'The New War Over Hiroshima': An Exchange Alperovitz, Gar 1995

Celer rushed away from Rome, fearing vengeance, and did not rest until he had reached the limits of Etruria, and that his name became the synonym for quickness, so that men swift of foot were called _Celeres_ by the Romans, just as we still speak of "celerity," meaning rapidity of motion.

The Story of Rome from the Earliest Times to the End of the Republic Arthur Gilman

The newly-married woman attends to the personal belongings of her happy possessor with the celerity which is taught in classes for "First Aid to the Injured."

The Spinster Book Myrtle Reed 1892

Gerald Muspratt, a coffee planter, whose estate was situate some twelve miles distant, in the adjoining county of Victoria; and, the acquaintance ripening over the after-dinner coffee, with that breathless celerity which is one of the most charming characteristics of the

The Adventures of Dick Maitland A Tale of Unknown Africa Harry Collingwood 1886

But the defenders have a way of massing upon each point thus attacked, and that with a celerity which is truly marvellous, and the result is the same.

The Sign of the Spider Bertram Mitford 1884