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modicity rare.|məʊˈdɪsɪtɪ|
[a. F. modicité, ad. med.L. modicitāt-em, f. L. modicus moderate: see next.]
Moderateness.
1611Cotgr., Modicité, modicitie, moderatenesse, meannesse, littlenesse. 1623tr. Favine's Theat. Hon. iii. iv. 362 And those Iewels or Gifts..were not set down in the Inuentarie, after the Husbands decease, according to the modicitie of the price, or small value of the things then giuen. 1881H. James Portr. Lady II. iv. 53 Mrs. Touchett..found compensation for the darkness of her frontage in the modicity of her rent. |