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sagacity
English
Etymology
sagac(ious) +? -ity, from French sagacité, from Latin sag?cit?s (“sagaciousness”), from sag?x (“of quick perception, acute, sagacious”), from s?gi? (“I perceive by the senses”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /s???æs?ti/, /s???æs?ti/
Noun
sagacity (usually uncountable, plural sagacities)
- (obsolete) Keen sense of smell.
- 1607, Edward Topsell, The History of Four-footed Beasts, Serpents, and Insects, London: G. Sawbridge et al., 1658, p. 352,[1]
- […] this Beast [the Ichneumon] is not only enemy to the Crocodile and Asp, but also to their Egs, which she hunteth out by the sagacity of her nose, and so destroyeth them […]
- 1607, Edward Topsell, The History of Four-footed Beasts, Serpents, and Insects, London: G. Sawbridge et al., 1658, p. 352,[1]
- The quality of being sage, wise, or able to make good decisions; the quality of being perceptive, astute or insightful.
- 1813, Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice, Volume 3, Chapter 15,[2]
- Young ladies have great penetration in such matters as these; but I think I may defy even your sagacity, to discover the name of your admirer.
- 1904, M. P. Shiel, The Evil That Men Do, London: Ward, Lock & Co., Chapter ,[3]
- Immediately after the meal, when he was alone again, he set to work to examine Drayton’s papers, of which there lay quite a mass on the table near him and, leaning toward the lamp on his elbow, he weighed the meaning of each with a certain sideward sagacity of gaze, a sagacity that smiled in its self-sureness.
- Swiss Family Robinson- "....near the mouth of a creek, towards which all our geese and ducks betook themselves; and I, relying on their sagacity, followed in the same course."
- Synonyms: sagaciousness, wisdom
- 1813, Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice, Volume 3, Chapter 15,[2]
Related terms
- sagacious
Translations
Further reading
- sagacity in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- sagacity in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- sagacity at OneLook Dictionary Search
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excellence
English
Etymology
From Old French excellence, from Latin excellentia.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??ks?l?ns/
Noun
excellence (usually uncountable, plural excellences)
- The quality of being excellent; brilliance
- Something in which one excels.
- An excellent or valuable quality; something at which any someone excels; a virtue.
Synonyms
- superiority
- pre-eminence
- perfection
- worth
- goodness
- purity
- greatness
Translations
See also
- par excellence
References
- excellence at OneLook Dictionary Search
- excellence in Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary, edited by The Keywords Project, Colin MacCabe, Holly Yanacek, 2018.
- excellence in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?k.s?.l??s/
Noun
excellence f (plural excellences)
- Excellence.
- Excellency (term of address).
Derived terms
Further reading
- “excellence” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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