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Latinity
[ luh-tin-i-tee ]
noun
- knowledge or use of the Latin language:
He bemoaned the lack of Latinity among today's scholars.
- Latin style or idiom.
Latinity
/ ±ôəˈ³Ùɪ²Ôɪ³Ùɪ /
noun
- facility in the use of Latin
- Latin style, esp in literature
51³Ô¹Ï History and Origins
Example Sentences
When Mrs. May sent him news clippings about riots in Los Angeles, Mr. Hardin responded that the media was finally seeing that “maybe the blacks are less than saintly†and lamented “the predominant Latinity of apprehended criminals†where he lived in California.
Over the chimney again was a wide slab of marble, supported by two marble scrolls; and a tablet, on which was recorded, with very tolerable latinity, that that ch�teau had been built by Francis Count of Morseiul, in the year of grace one thousand five hundred and ninety.
Whatever it may have been in the eighteenth century, the Latin essay at the end of the nineteenth was perhaps hardly an infallible criterion of the professor-elect's Latinity, and it was just as well to discard it.
As Hafen Slawkenbergius de Nasis is extremely scarce, it may not be unacceptable to the learned reader to see the specimen of a few pages of his original; I will make no reflection upon it, but that his story-telling Latin is much more concise than his philosophic—and, I think, has more of Latinity in it.
The Jolliffe, the lord of the manor whose claims were thus resisted by the good folk of Petersfield, was, singularly enough, a descendant of that lover of liberty and paragon of latinity, William Jolliffe, Esq.,
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