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English
Etymology
From fecal + -ity.
Noun
fecality (uncountable)
- The quality of being fecal.
1653, Francis Rabelais , translated by , chapter IV, in The Works of Francis Rabelais, Doctor in Physick: Containing Five Books of the Lives, Heroick Deeds, and Sayings of Gargantua, and His Sonne Pantagruel. Epistle all done by Mr. Francis Rabelais in the French Tongue and Now Faithfully Translated into English">…], London: ">…] for Richard Baddeley, , →OCLC; republished in volume I, London: Navarre Society , , →OCLC, 1st book:Notwithstanding these admonitions, she did eat sixteen quarters, two bushels, three pecks and a pipkin full. O the fair fecality wherewith she swelled, by the ingrediency of such shitten stuff!
1989, Contemporary literary criticism : excerpts from criticism of the works of today's novelists, poets, playwrights, and other creative writers, page 400:Their appearance leads to an orgy of multitudinous fornications, a wild tumult of perversions and obscene interlacings which language is dislocated and fiercely fractured to express. The vision is not simply of a jungle of wild copulations, but of filth, fecality, bestiality.