dulcity
dulcity noun: sweetness (literal and figurative).
Noun
dulcity (uncountable)
- Sweetness (literal and figurative).
- And amongſt other fruits as Orenges (which are ſweet, ſucculent and daintie) of ſo pleaſant a taſte and relliſh, that they affect the eater wonderfully offering the rinde with no leſſe pleaſure then the iuice, both which ſeeme to haue dulcitie and Acrimony mixt together[…]1634, Th[omas] Herbert, A Relation of Some Yeares Travaile, Begunne Anno 1626. Into Afrique and the Greater Asia, Especially the Territories of the Persian Monarchie: and Some Parts of the Orientall...
- But when natural heat begins to domineer in the very matter, and the watry matter mixed with the terrene hath attained to maturity, then the auſterity evinced and expelled, dulcity succeeds in the same matter; and ſo auſtere Fruits after mutation become ſweet, which mutation is not of the matter...1657, Renodæus [i.e., Jean de Renou], translated by Richard Tomlinson, A Medicinal Dispensatory, Containing the Whole Body of Physick: Discovering the Natures, Properties, and Vertues of Vegetables...
Examples of dulcity in a sentence
- And angels also were present with the apostles, singing with them and filling the whole earth with the dulcity of their music.1941, Granger Ryan, Helmut Ripperger, transl., The Golden Legend of Jacobus de Voragine, part two, London; New York, N.Y.; Toronto, Ont....
- Within our soules shall thy semblance live / To teach us love, compassion, and felicity; / For He whom to thee your life did give / Hath recalled thee to this heavenly dulcity.2014, Ignacio Haro, “To Brenda (d.)”, in My Strength and My Defense, WestBow Press, a division of Thomas Nelson & Zondervan, →ISBN, page 44:
Origin of dulcity
Learned borrowing from Latin dulcitās. By surface analysis, dulce + -ity.
Questions about dulcity
- What does dulcity mean?
- Dulcity means sweetness (literal and figurative).
- How do you use dulcity in a sentence?
- And angels also were present with the apostles, singing with them and filling the whole earth with the dulcity of their music.
- What part of speech is dulcity?
- Dulcity is a noun.
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