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vitiosity|vɪʃɪˈɒsɪtɪ|
Also 6–7, 9 viciosity (6 -itie, -itee), 7 visiositie.
[ad. L. vitiōsitās, f. vitiōsus: see next and -ity. So OF. viciosité (vicieusité, -eté), It. viziosità.]
†1. A defect or fault; an imperfection. Obs.
1538Elyot Dict. Addit., Cacia, viciositie, or that whiche we commonly do calle, a faute in a thynge. 1563Abp. Parker Corr. (Parker Soc.) 199 With my natural viciosity of overmuch shamefastness I am so babished..that [etc.]. 1589Puttenham Eng. Poesie (Arb.) 167 It may come to passe that what the Grammarian setteth downe for a viciositee in speach may become a vertue and no vice. 1665Jer. Taylor Unum Necess. vi. §16 Any person that hath a fault or a legal impurity, a debt, a vitiosity, defect, or imperfection.
2. The state or character of being morally vicious.
1603Holland Plutarch's Mor. 247 Reason by little and little doth illuminate, purge and cleanse the soule in abating and diminishing evermore the visiositie thereof. 1643Sir T. Browne Relig. Med. i. §42 My untamed affections and confirmed vitiosity makes mee dayly doe worse. 1678Cudworth Intell. Syst. i. iii. Contents 104 It is not only moral vitiosity which inclines men to atheize. 1782J. Brown Compend. View Nat. & Rev. Relig. I. 13 An inconceivable vitiosity of nature absolutely inconsistent with godhead. 1836Gilbert Chr. Atonem. Notes (1852) 380 The vitiosity of sin and public injury are here correlative.
†b. An instance of this; a vice. Obs.
1643Sir T. Browne Relig. Med. ii. §7 There are certaine tempers of body, which..doe hatch and produce viciosities, whose..monstrosity of nature admits no name. 1657Gaule Sap. Just. 9 That, after Baptism, it is no real viciosity, but only a penalty.
†3. The quality of being physically impaired or defective. Obs.
1647A. Ross Mystag. Poet. i. (1672) 9 In this Gum [sc. myrrh] Venus is much delighted, as being a help to..the vitiosity of the Matrix. 1651N. Biggs New Disp. ⁋223 If the more waterish and yellow bloud doth denote its vitiosity.
4. Sc. Law. The quality of being faulty or improper in a legal aspect.
1765–8Erskine Inst. Law Scot. iii. ix. §52 Such confirmation..purges the vitiosity of his former intromissions. 1838W. Bell Dict. Law Scot. 529 It infers an intention on the part of the intromitter to account for his intromissions, which takes off the vitiosity, and renders him liable only to the extent of his intromissions. |