minacity

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English

Etymology

From Late Latin minacitas, from Latin minax (threatening) + -itas (-ity: forming abstract nouns).

Noun

minacity (usually uncountable, plural minacities)

  1. Synonym of menace: The action or process of threatening or the tendency to threaten.
    • 1864, Leigh Hunt, The Seer, or, Common-Places Refreshed, volume II, page 278:
      ...Nor is the district without its historical minacities...

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