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scurrilities

scurrilities is the plural of scurrility.

Meaning of scurrility

Noun

scurrility (countable and uncountable, plural scurrilities)

  1. Something that is scurrilous.
    • His gayeſt flooriſhes are but Gaſcoignes Weedes, or Tarletons trickes, or Greenes crankes, or Marlowes bravadoes; his jeſts, but the dregges of common ſcurrilitie, or the ſhreds of the Theater, or the of-ſcouring of new pamflets: […]1593, Gabriell Haruey [i.e., Gabriel Harvey], Pierces Supererogation: Or A New Prayse of the Old Asse. A Preparative to Certaine Larger Discourses, Intituled Nashes S. Fame, London: […] Iohn Wolfe...

Questions about scurrilities

What is scurrilities the plural of?
Scurrilities is the plural of scurrility.

Words near scurrilities in the dictionary

  1. scurries away
  2. scurril
  3. scurrile
  4. scurrilist
  5. scurrilists
  6. scurrilities
  7. scurrility
  8. scurrilize
  9. scurrilized
  10. scurrilizes
  11. scurrilizing

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