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English
Etymology
From the Latin annōsitās (“fullness of years”).
Pronunciation
Noun
annosity (uncountable)
- (rare) Fullness of years; great length of life; agedness; lengthiness of life span.
1654, Hamon L’Estrange, The Reign of King Charles, an History faithfully and impartially delivered and disposed into Annals, page 136:Robert Parr…the wonder of our times for annosity and long life.
1994, The Economist, volume 332, numbers 7879-7882, page 84:[…] the guardian of this columbarium — he missed that one — is plainly not a pedant at all. He just has a quirky love of words. Johnson wishes him annosity of his […]
Translations
References
- An Universal Etymological English Dictionary, by Nathan Bailey (1742 edition)
Annosity, Agedness.
- A Compleat Dictionary English and Dutch, to which is added a Grammar, for both Languages, by William Sewel and Egbert Buys (1766), volume 1, page 21
ANNOSITY, Ouderdom.
- Dictionary of the Synonymous Words and Technical Terms in the English Language, by James Leslie (1806), page 7
AGEDNESS. s. Annosity.
- Encyclopædia Perthensis; or, Universal Dictionary of the Arts, Sciences, Literature, &c. (2nd Ed.; 1816), volume II, page 183
ANNOSITY, agedneſs. Bailey.
- “†aˈnnosity” listed in the Oxford English Dictionary