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unctuosities

unctuosities is the plural of unctuosity.

Meaning of unctuosity

Noun

unctuosity (usually uncountable, plural unctuosities)

  1. (usually) The state or characteristic of being unctuous.
    • Then followed the thunder of the captains and the shouting, and so we came on to the banquet, from whence there puffed out such an incense of unctuosity into the nostrils of our Gods of Church and State, that Lucullus or Apicius might have sniffed it in their Hades of heathenism.1884, Alfred Tennyson, Becket, act 3, sc. 3

Questions about unctuosities

What is unctuosities the plural of?
Unctuosities is the plural of unctuosity.

Words near unctuosities in the dictionary

  1. unctiousness
  2. unctoria
  3. unctorium
  4. uncts
  5. unctuose
  6. unctuosities
  7. unctuosity
  8. unctuous
  9. unctuously
  10. unctuousness
  11. uncubbed

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