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▪ I. † ˈnitency1 Obs. rare.
[ad. L. type *nītentia, f. ppl. stem of nītī: cf. nisus.]
Impulse.
1661Boyle Spring of Air (1682) 93 Those Zones will have a strong Nitency to flie wider open. 1693J. Beaumont On Burnet's The. Earth ii. 105 The native Nitency of the Waters..would much more strongly repel any Waters there rais'd above their level. 1768–74Tucker Lt. Nat. (1834) I. 545 They talk of the tendencies and nitencies..of bodies.
▪ II. ˈnitency2 rare—0.
[ad. L. type *nitentia, f. nitent-: see next.]
‘Lustre; clear brightness.’
1755Johnson [hence in later Dicts.]. |