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innitency

innitency noun: a burden; a dead weight.

Noun

innitency (uncountable)

  1. (obsolete) A burden; a dead weight.
    • But such a Faith is required to bring us within the Covenant as is an Affiance or resting innitency, or resting of the soul upon Jesus Christ exhibited in the promise for life and salvation, expressed in Isaiah by trusting in the Lord, and staying upon the name of God, when we sit in darkenesse and...1652, Daniel Carwardine, late minister of Eling in the county of Middlesex, A briefe discourse touching a broken heart: In which the nature, causes, and signes of it are solidly treated of; as also...
    • Which consisting of two Vectes or armes, converted towards each other, the innitency and stresse being made upon the hypomochlion or fulciment in the decussation, the greater compression is made by the union of two impulsors.1658, Sir Thomas Browne, The Garden of Cyrus

Origin of innitency

From Latin innītor (“to lean upon”) + -ency.

Questions about innitency

What does innitency mean?
Innitency means a burden; a dead weight.
What part of speech is innitency?
Innitency is a noun.

Words near innitency in the dictionary

  1. Innisfree
  2. Inniskeen
  3. Inniss
  4. Innisses
  5. innit
  6. innitency
  7. innitial
  8. innixion
  9. innixions
  10. innkeep
  11. innkeeper

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