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stagnancy|ˈstægnənsɪ|
[f. stagnant a.: see -ancy.]
1. The condition of being stagnant or without motion, flow, or circulation.
1659Hammond On Ps. cx. 7 The stagnancy or standing still of these waters. 1665Nedham Med. Medicinæ 410 The bloud should be preserved from Stagnancy. 1853Ruskin Stones Ven. III. i §47. 31 We would not wantonly..stay the mountain winds into pestilential stagnancy. 1873Morley Rousseau I. vii. 263 Suddenly heated stagnancies of the blood. 1885J. Payn Luck Darrells II. xxiv. 161 The sleepy moat, preserved from stagnancy by a thread of running stream.
b. transf. and fig.
1837Carlyle Fr. Rev. I. v. v, When the long-enthralled soul, from amid its chains and squalid stagnancy, arises. 1849Robertson Serm. Ser. i. ii. (1866) 19 It stirs the stagnancy of our existence. 1903F. W. H. Myers Human Personality I. 6 That unseen world appeared..as a realm of law; a region not of mere emotional vagueness or stagnancy of adoration, but of definite progress.
2. Anything stagnant.
1681Cotton Wond. Peak 55 For, though the Country People are so wise To call these Rivers, they'r but Stagnancies, Left by the flood. 1699L. Wafer Voy. (1729) 310 The Stagnancies and Decliuities of the ground, and the very droppings of the trees, in the wet season, afford water enough. 1818Coleridge Let. to Mrs. Gillman Lett. (1895) 692 The number of unnecessary fish ponds and other stagnancies immediately around the house.
b. transf. and fig.
1871Carlyle in Mrs. Carlyle Lett. I. 147 Those sad currents and sad stagnancies of thought. 1902[see peccancy 1]. |