exilityn.

Brit.

/ᵻɡˈzɪlᵻti/,

/ɛɡˈzɪlᵻti/,

/ɛkˈsɪlᵻti/, U.S.

/ɪɡˈzɪlədi/,

/ɛɡˈzɪlədi/

Forms: late Middle English exilite, late Middle English–1500s exilitee, late Middle English–1600s exilitie, 1500s– exility.

Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymons: Latin exīlitāt-, exīlitās.

Etymology: < classical Latin exīlitāt-, exīlitās thinness, leanness, narrowness, (of soil) poorness, thinness, (of sound) thinness, (of style) spareness, dryness, in post-classical Latin also scarcity, meagreness (from 1302 in British sources), poverty (from 1350 in British sources) < exīlis exile adj. + -tās (see -ty suffix¹; compare -ity suffix).

Now rare.

†a. Smallness or slenderness of income or revenue; poorness, poverty. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > possession > poverty > [noun]

waedlec888

wanspeedc893

wanea1100

wandrethc1175

miseasea1200

povertya1225

lowness?c1225

needc1225

orcostc1225

poorness?a1300

unwealtha1300

defaultc1300

porailc1325

straitnessa1340

poorhead1340

mischiefa1375

miseasetya1382

needinessa1382

misterc1385

indigencec1386

scarcitya1387

noughtc1400

scantnessc1400

necessity?1406

penurya1425

povertnessa1434

exilitya1439

wantc1450

scarcenessc1475

needinga1500

povertiesa1500

penurity?a1505

poortith?a1513

debility1525

tenuity1535

leanness1550

lack1555

Needham1577

inopy1581

pinching1587

dispurveyance1590

egency1600

macritude1623

penuriousness1630

indigency1631

needihood1648

necessitousness1650

egestuosity1656

straitened circumstancesa1766

unopulence1796

Queer Street1811

lowliness1834

breadlessness1860

unwealthiness1886

out-of-elbowness1890

secondary poverty1901

Short Street1920

a1439 in Archaeologia (1890) 52 309 (MED) The exilitie of þaire dotacon.

1464 in A. Clark Lincoln Diocese Documents (1914) 129 (MED) Hauyng consideracion of the exilite and pouerte of the saide hous.

1559 Abp. M. Parker et al. Let. to Queen Elizabeth I in Abp. M. Parker Corr. (1853) (modernized text) 100 In consideration of the exility of the bishopricks.

1562 Bp. E. Grindal Let. 3 Oct. in Abp. M. Parker Corr. (1853) (modernized text) 196 If by exility or decay of benefices..any arrearages be.

1651 H. Isaackson in T. Fuller Abel Redevivus sig. *2^v His Majesty..(because of the exility of that Bishopricke) soon after added the Parsonage of Cheyham.

a1734 R. North Autobiogr. (1887) xv. 207 I did not oppose his choice, nor objected to the exility of the fortune, because he might have a better.

a1773 J. Hutchins Hist. Dorset (1774) I. 63 The bishop of Sarum sets forth the exility of the two churches..which were not sufficient to maintain a priest each.

1883 Catholic World Aug. 625 A whole week elapsed before I could..get apartments which suited at once the exility of my finances and the boundlessness of my requirements.

1920 F. C. Ottman J. Wilbur Chapman iii. 33 The undergraduates lost no opportunity to preach, not only to ‘exercise their gifts’ but also to dilate the exility of their income.

b. Shrunken or attenuated condition, smallness in number or size; thinness, slenderness, meagreness.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > number > plurality > fewness > [noun]

fewnesseOE

paucityc1425

thinnessc1440

exility1528

smallness1544

rareness1562

infrequency1600

exiguity1604

uninfiniteness1656

scarceness1672

exiguousness1727

spareness1822

sparseness1833

sparsity1865

the world > space > shape > condition of being long in relation to breadth > slenderness > [noun]

fineness?1537

slendernessa1538

finesse1551

tenuity1578

gracility1623

gracileness1727

exility1750

attenuity1830

the world > space > extension in space > measurable spatial extent > smallness > [noun]

littlenessOE

ungreatc1275

littleheadc1350

smallnessa1398

littlelaikc1450

exiguity1604

pusillage1610

parvity1620

parvitude1652

petitenessa1676

exiguousness1727

exility1779

toydom1882

weeness1882

1528 in State Papers Henry VIII (1834) II. 129 The Kinges revenues be brought to suche exilitie, that they suffice nat to ordinarie charges.

?c1550 tr. P. Vergil Eng. Hist. (1846) I. 72 The place wherin thei foughte was verie streyght, and therfor commodius to the exilitee of the Romains.

1589 E. Hutchins Serm. preached at S. Maries Oxf. Ep. Ded. sig. A2 Mine own exility..in selfe knowledge..more needing to reade than to write.

1612 J. Cotta Short Discouerie Dangers Ignorant Practisers Physicke i. v. 57 Neither of which the bladder it selfe and the exility of the veines thereof could so plentifully with so easie accidents afford.

1641 W. Prynne Antipathie 270 The exilitie and smalenesse of his learning.

1750 G. Hughes Nat. Hist. Barbados 41 They [sc. Guinea worms] are exceeding long in respect to their great exility and thinness.

1779 S. Johnson Cowley in Pref. Wks. Eng. Poets I. 45 Subtlety..in its original import means exility of particles.

1813 J. Forsyth Remarks Excurs. Italy 382 The apparent height and the exility admired in a Gothic pillar.

1841 J. H. Ingraham Quadroone I. x. 132 The extraordinary height and exility of her remarkably attenuated person.

1909 W. Winter Old Friends iv. 130 Holmes..was especially remarkable for the impressive stateliness of his demeanor on ceremonial occasions,—a natural stateliness, from which physical exility could not detract.

1965 Internat. Affairs 41 587 Authorities..will find small things to criticise in Mr. Grattan's treatment, notably..the exility of his post-1945 New Zealand narrative, [etc.].

†2.

a. Lack of solidity or substance; weakness or faintness of sound; fineness of texture; insubstantiality. Of immaterial things: refinement, subtlety. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > constitution of matter > lack of density > [noun]

thinnessc1000

subtilenessa1398

subtletya1398

rareness?a1425

rarity?a1425

subtility?a1425

thinheadc1440

subtilty1494

shireness1495

tenuity1603

exility1626

soluteness1653

1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §154 The Voice or other Sound is reduced, by such passage to a great Weakness or Exility.

1642 H. More Ψυχωδια Platonica sig. L7 Many other reasons from those heavenly motions Might well be drawn, but with exilitie Of subtile Mathematicks obscure notions, A Poets pen so fitly no'te agree.

1701 A. Boyer tr. E. Le Noble Art Prudent Behaviour ii. 70 Exility or Smalness of the Voice does not stir them.

1751 J. Harris Hermes iii. iv. 393 Bodies so exceedingly fine, that their very Exility makes them susceptible of sensation.

1788 T. Taylor Diss. Platonic Doctr. Ideas in tr. Proclus Philos. & Math. Comm. I. p. xxxii Body..may be subtilized into life, and shrink, by its exility, into intellect.

1802 W. Paley Nat. Theol. xxi. 406 This extreme exility [of light] though difficult to conceive, it is easy to prove.

1835 New-Eng. Mag. 9 233 He will refine and over-refine an odd idea, till one fairly laughs out in admiration of its impalpable, transparent, glittering, fluttering exility!

1866 J. Martineau Ess. Philos. & Theol. 1st Ser. 144 The extreme exility of the evidence.

1907 I. W. Riley Amer. Philos. vi. 428 To calculate the degrees of vigour, and the number and exility of motions which the mind is capable of receiving.

b. A refinement, a subtlety. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > judgement or decision > discernment, discrimination > [noun] > subtle point

subtletya1425

subtilityc1485

jimp?a1500

nicety1589

nicery1605

fineness1622

pointille1626

measuring cast1631

criticisma1640

exility1642

subtilty1681

quoddity1682

nuance1781

distinguo1895

1642 H. More Ψυχωδια Platonica sig. G8^v The soul..contemnes as nought unseen exilities.

1808 Fashionable Biogr. 51 Read the ‘exilities’ of this lady's pen, in prose and verse.

1815 Port Folio Dec. 599 An argument where the utmost attenuation of thought is drawn out into corresponding exilities of expression.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	exility
释义	exilityn. Brit. /ᵻɡˈzɪlᵻti/, /ɛɡˈzɪlᵻti/, /ɛkˈsɪlᵻti/, U.S. /ɪɡˈzɪlədi/, /ɛɡˈzɪlədi/ Forms: late Middle English exilite, late Middle English–1500s exilitee, late Middle English–1600s exilitie, 1500s– exility. Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymons: Latin exīlitāt-, exīlitās. Etymology: < classical Latin exīlitāt-, exīlitās thinness, leanness, narrowness, (of soil) poorness, thinness, (of sound) thinness, (of style) spareness, dryness, in post-classical Latin also scarcity, meagreness (from 1302 in British sources), poverty (from 1350 in British sources) < exīlis exile adj. + -tās (see -ty suffix¹; compare -ity suffix). Now rare. 1. †a. Smallness or slenderness of income or revenue; poorness, poverty. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > poverty > [noun] waedlec888 wanspeedc893 wanea1100 wandrethc1175 miseasea1200 povertya1225 lowness?c1225 needc1225 orcostc1225 poorness?a1300 unwealtha1300 defaultc1300 porailc1325 straitnessa1340 poorhead1340 mischiefa1375 miseasetya1382 needinessa1382 misterc1385 indigencec1386 scarcitya1387 noughtc1400 scantnessc1400 necessity?1406 penurya1425 povertnessa1434 exilitya1439 wantc1450 scarcenessc1475 needinga1500 povertiesa1500 penurity?a1505 poortith?a1513 debility1525 tenuity1535 leanness1550 lack1555 Needham1577 inopy1581 pinching1587 dispurveyance1590 egency1600 macritude1623 penuriousness1630 indigency1631 needihood1648 necessitousness1650 egestuosity1656 straitened circumstancesa1766 unopulence1796 Queer Street1811 lowliness1834 breadlessness1860 unwealthiness1886 out-of-elbowness1890 secondary poverty1901 Short Street1920 a1439 in Archaeologia (1890) 52 309 (MED) The exilitie of þaire dotacon. 1464 in A. Clark Lincoln Diocese Documents (1914) 129 (MED) Hauyng consideracion of the exilite and pouerte of the saide hous. 1559 Abp. M. Parker et al. Let. to Queen Elizabeth I in Abp. M. Parker Corr. (1853) (modernized text) 100 In consideration of the exility of the bishopricks. 1562 Bp. E. Grindal Let. 3 Oct. in Abp. M. Parker Corr. (1853) (modernized text) 196 If by exility or decay of benefices..any arrearages be. 1651 H. Isaackson in T. Fuller Abel Redevivus sig. 2^v His Majesty..(because of the exility of that Bishopricke) soon after added the Parsonage of Cheyham. a1734 R. North Autobiogr.* (1887) xv. 207 I did not oppose his choice, nor objected to the exility of the fortune, because he might have a better. a1773 J. Hutchins Hist. Dorset (1774) I. 63 The bishop of Sarum sets forth the exility of the two churches..which were not sufficient to maintain a priest each. 1883 Catholic World Aug. 625 A whole week elapsed before I could..get apartments which suited at once the exility of my finances and the boundlessness of my requirements. 1920 F. C. Ottman J. Wilbur Chapman iii. 33 The undergraduates lost no opportunity to preach, not only to ‘exercise their gifts’ but also to dilate the exility of their income. b. Shrunken or attenuated condition, smallness in number or size; thinness, slenderness, meagreness. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > plurality > fewness > [noun] fewnesseOE paucityc1425 thinnessc1440 exility1528 smallness1544 rareness1562 infrequency1600 exiguity1604 uninfiniteness1656 scarceness1672 exiguousness1727 spareness1822 sparseness1833 sparsity1865 the world > space > shape > condition of being long in relation to breadth > slenderness > [noun] fineness?1537 slendernessa1538 finesse1551 tenuity1578 gracility1623 gracileness1727 exility1750 attenuity1830 the world > space > extension in space > measurable spatial extent > smallness > [noun] littlenessOE ungreatc1275 littleheadc1350 smallnessa1398 littlelaikc1450 exiguity1604 pusillage1610 parvity1620 parvitude1652 petitenessa1676 exiguousness1727 exility1779 toydom1882 weeness1882 1528 in State Papers Henry VIII (1834) II. 129 The Kinges revenues be brought to suche exilitie, that they suffice nat to ordinarie charges. ?c1550 tr. P. Vergil Eng. Hist. (1846) I. 72 The place wherin thei foughte was verie streyght, and therfor commodius to the exilitee of the Romains. 1589 E. Hutchins Serm. preached at S. Maries Oxf. Ep. Ded. sig. A2 Mine own exility..in selfe knowledge..more needing to reade than to write. 1612 J. Cotta Short Discouerie Dangers Ignorant Practisers Physicke i. v. 57 Neither of which the bladder it selfe and the exility of the veines thereof could so plentifully with so easie accidents afford. 1641 W. Prynne Antipathie 270 The exilitie and smalenesse of his learning. 1750 G. Hughes Nat. Hist. Barbados 41 They [sc. Guinea worms] are exceeding long in respect to their great exility and thinness. 1779 S. Johnson Cowley in Pref. Wks. Eng. Poets I. 45 Subtlety..in its original import means exility of particles. 1813 J. Forsyth Remarks Excurs. Italy 382 The apparent height and the exility admired in a Gothic pillar. 1841 J. H. Ingraham Quadroone I. x. 132 The extraordinary height and exility of her remarkably attenuated person. 1909 W. Winter Old Friends iv. 130 Holmes..was especially remarkable for the impressive stateliness of his demeanor on ceremonial occasions,—a natural stateliness, from which physical exility could not detract. 1965 Internat. Affairs 41 587 Authorities..will find small things to criticise in Mr. Grattan's treatment, notably..the exility of his post-1945 New Zealand narrative, [etc.]. †2. a. Lack of solidity or substance; weakness or faintness of sound; fineness of texture; insubstantiality. Of immaterial things: refinement, subtlety. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > constitution of matter > lack of density > [noun] thinnessc1000 subtilenessa1398 subtletya1398 rareness?a1425 rarity?a1425 subtility?a1425 thinheadc1440 subtilty1494 shireness1495 tenuity1603 exility1626 soluteness1653 1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §154 The Voice or other Sound is reduced, by such passage to a great Weakness or Exility. 1642 H. More Ψυχωδια Platonica sig. L7 Many other reasons from those heavenly motions Might well be drawn, but with exilitie Of subtile Mathematicks obscure notions, A Poets pen so fitly no'te agree. 1701 A. Boyer tr. E. Le Noble Art Prudent Behaviour ii. 70 Exility or Smalness of the Voice does not stir them. 1751 J. Harris Hermes iii. iv. 393 Bodies so exceedingly fine, that their very Exility makes them susceptible of sensation. 1788 T. Taylor Diss. Platonic Doctr. Ideas in tr. Proclus Philos. & Math. Comm. I. p. xxxii Body..may be subtilized into life, and shrink, by its exility, into intellect. 1802 W. Paley Nat. Theol. xxi. 406 This extreme exility [of light] though difficult to conceive, it is easy to prove. 1835 New-Eng. Mag. 9 233 He will refine and over-refine an odd idea, till one fairly laughs out in admiration of its impalpable, transparent, glittering, fluttering exility! 1866 J. Martineau Ess. Philos. & Theol. 1st Ser. 144 The extreme exility of the evidence. 1907 I. W. Riley Amer. Philos. vi. 428 To calculate the degrees of vigour, and the number and exility of motions which the mind is capable of receiving. b. A refinement, a subtlety. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > judgement or decision > discernment, discrimination > [noun] > subtle point subtletya1425 subtilityc1485 jimp?a1500 nicety1589 nicery1605 fineness1622 pointille1626 measuring cast1631 criticisma1640 exility1642 subtilty1681 quoddity1682 nuance1781 distinguo1895 1642 H. More Ψυχωδια Platonica sig. G8^v The soul..contemnes as nought unseen exilities. 1808 Fashionable Biogr. 51 Read the ‘exilities’ of this lady's pen, in prose and verse. 1815 Port Folio Dec. 599 An argument where the utmost attenuation of thought is drawn out into corresponding exilities of expression. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.a1439
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