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imbonity

imbonity noun: lack of goodness.

Noun

imbonity (countable and uncountable, plural imbonities)

  1. (obsolete, rare) Lack of goodness.
    • All fears, griefs, suspicions, discontents, imbonities, insuavities are swallowed up, and drowned in this Euripus, this Irish Sea, this Ocean of misery, as so many small brooks; 'tis coagulum omnium ærumnarum: which Ammianus applyed to his distressed Palladius, I say of our Melancholy man, hee is...1621, Robert Burton, The anatomy of melancholy
    • Divest yourselves of your imbonity, incogitancy, and malversation; bonity is impetrable; perpend your long-inquity from eupathy, and the inenarrable sequences of your impreparation for the apropinquating catastrophe.1856, Samuel Klinefelter Hoshour, Letters to Squire Pedant, in the East, page 39

Forms of imbonity

pluralimbonities

Origin of imbonity

From im- (“not”) + Latin bonitās (“goodness”).

Questions about imbonity

What does imbonity mean?
Imbonity means lack of goodness.
What part of speech is imbonity?
Imbonity is a noun.
What is the plural of imbonity?
The plural of imbonity is imbonities.

Words near imbonity in the dictionary

  1. Imbolg
  2. imbondo
  3. imbongi
  4. imbongis
  5. imbonities
  6. imbonity
  7. imborder
  8. imbordered
  9. imbordering
  10. imborders
  11. imbordure

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