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morosity|mɒˈrɒsɪtɪ|
[ad. F. morosité, ad. L. mōrōsitas, f. mōrōsus morose a.: see -ity.]
= moroseness. In 17th c. often in particularized sense, † an instance of moroseness.
1534Whitinton Tullyes Offices i. (1540) 39 Leste..we shulde slyp in to morosyte yuell to please, vnprofytable and odyous to other men. 1563–87Foxe A. & M. (1596) 710/1 The world is come now to such a morossity and peeuish insensibilitie in these contentious and cauilling daies of ours, that [etc.]. 1625Donne Serm. 3 Apr. 40 There may bee a Jealousie in the Husband, a Morositie in the Father, an Imperiousnesse in the Master. 1649Jer. Taylor Gt. Exemp. ii. Pr. i. 102 Blot out all peevish dispositions and morosities. a1677Barrow Serm. (1810) II. 157 No affected singularities, no supercilious morosities, no frivolous ostentations. 1711Vind. Sacheverell 81 The Stoical Morosities, and mis-tim'd Preachments of these Lay Baptists. 1849F. W. Newman Soul (ed. 2) 176 At least this appears the best way of showing that no morosity mingles with distaste for such things. 1873R. Broughton Nancy III. 146 By the utter morosity of Algy's face..I conjecture that it is a joke. 1884C. Rogers Soc. Life Scot. II. xi. 160 James VI sought to repress the prevailing morosity. 1923E. Bowen Encounters 13 Aunt Willoughby's baffled, bearded morosity. 1965C. H. Sisson Christopher Homm xxi. 162 Even to Dad Christopher's courtship was of some use, as an exercise for morosity. |