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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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greatness
English
Etymology
From Middle English gretnesse, gretnes, greetnesse, from Old English gr?atnes. Equivalent to great +? -ness.
Pronunciation
- enPR: gr?t?n?s, IPA(key): /???e?tn?s/
- Hyphenation: great?ness
Noun
greatness (countable and uncountable, plural greatnesses)
- The state, condition, or quality of being great
- Due to the greatness of his size, he was an effective bodyguard.
- greatness of mind
- c. 1600, William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night ACt 3 Scene 4
- Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em.
- (obsolete): Pride; haughtiness.
- 1627, Francis Bacon, New Atlantis
- It is not of pride or greatness that he cometh not aboard your ships.
- 1627, Francis Bacon, New Atlantis
Translations
See also
- magnum opus
- genius
Anagrams
- Tressange, estranges, seargents, sergeants
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