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procerity Now rare.|prəʊˈsɛrɪtɪ|
[ad. obs. F. procerité (15th c. in Godef.) or ad. L. prōcēritātem height, tallness: f. prōcēr-us: see procere and -ity.]
Tallness, loftiness, height; length.
1550Latimer Last Serm. bef. Edw. VI (1562) 112 b, They were Gyantes for theyr cruelty..and not in stature or procerity of body. 1604Tooker Fabrique of Ch. 13 All trees are not of one growth or proceritie. 1646J. Hall Poems i. 36 [Thou] Com'st as near a Wit, as doth a Rat Match in procerity Mount Ararat. a1677Hale Prim. Orig. Man. ii. vi. 173 At 5 Years of age in an ordinary growth the procerity is half of that which will be attained at full age. 1756Johnson Life King of Prussia Wks. IV. 532 When he met a tall woman, he immediately commanded one of his Titanian retinue to marry her, that they might propagate procerity. 1864Sir F. Palgrave Norm. & Eng. IV. 448 A cubit taller than any of his companions, and rendered even more remarkable by his beauty than his procerity. |