Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Clearness; splendor.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete Clearness; splendor.
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- noun obsolete
clarity ;splendour
Etymologies
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Latin claritudo, from clarus clear.
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Examples
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I step abroad from my clay house, and become a part of the splendor and claritude and vigor around.
Memories of Hawthorne Rose Hawthorne Lathrop 1888
mollusque commented on the word claritude
The moonlight falls, a liquid-silver flood,
Filling the air with rapture sweet and strange;
Touching to fairy loveliness the wood,
The flowery lawn, the distant mountain-range,
The streamlet, shining in its claritude.
--Rosa Fairfax Costley, 1879, Fantasma, a Fairy Tale in Five parts
November 25, 2007