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sesquipedalities

sesquipedalities is the plural of sesquipedality.

Meaning of sesquipedality

Noun

sesquipedality (countable and uncountable, plural sesquipedalities)

  1. An instance or condition of being sesquipedalian.
    • Imagine to yourſelf a little, ſquat, uncourtly figure of a Doctor Slop, of about four feet and a half perpendicular height, with a breadth of back, and a ſeſquipedality of belly, which might have done honour to a ſerjeant in the horſe-guards.1759, [Laurence Sterne], chapter IX, in The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, 2nd (1st London) edition, volume II, London: […] R[obert] and J[ames] Dodsley […], published 1760, →OCLC...

Questions about sesquipedalities

What is sesquipedalities the plural of?
Sesquipedalities is the plural of sesquipedality.

Words near sesquipedalities in the dictionary

  1. sesquipedalianisms
  2. sesquipedalianist
  3. sesquipedalianists
  4. sesquipedalians
  5. sesquipedalism
  6. sesquipedalities
  7. sesquipedality
  8. sesquipedalophobia
  9. sesquipedals
  10. sesquiplane
  11. sesquiplanes

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