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mordacities

mordacities is the plural of mordacity.

Meaning of mordacity

Noun

mordacity (usually uncountable, plural mordacities)

  1. (usually) The quality of being mordacious; biting severity, or sarcastic quality.
    • such things as have very thin parts , yet notwithstanding are without all acrirumony or mordacity1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “(please specify the page, or |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted...

Questions about mordacities

What is mordacities the plural of?
Mordacities is the plural of mordacity.

Words near mordacities in the dictionary

  1. Morcott
  2. mordaciid
  3. mordaciids
  4. mordacious
  5. mordaciously
  6. mordacities
  7. mordacity
  8. Mordad
  9. mordancies
  10. mordancy
  11. mordant

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Adapted from Wiktionary: mordacities (page history and authors); mordacity (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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