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tardity Now rare.|ˈtɑːdɪtɪ|
Also 5 -ee, 6–7 -ie.
[a. OF. tardité (1420 in Godef.), earlier tardeté, ad. L. tarditās, f. tard-us slow: see -ity.]
1. Slowness of movement or action: = tardiness a. In later use, a technical term of Physics, opp. to velocity.
[c1386Chaucer Pars. T. ⁋644 The synne that men clepen Tarditas, as whan a man is to laterede or tariyng er he wole turne to god.] c1450Mirour Saluacioun 4410 Wightlayke delyvrenesse with out ony tarditee. 1586B. Young Guazzo's Civ. Conv. iv. 178 b, For his rude simplicitie and tarditie. 1603Sir C. Heydon Jud. Astrol. xxiii. 514 [He] confesseth velocitie, and tarditie, in the Moone. 1656S. Holland Zara (1719) 2 The Champion began to tax himself of tardity. 1714Derham Astro-Theol. vii. v. (1769) 180 The tardity of the periodic motion in their respective orbits. 1852De Morgan in Graves Life Sir W. R. Hamilton (1889) III. 353 In every semicircle, the intension of the breadth [ordinate] begins from the utmost degree of velocity, and terminates at the utmost degree of tardity in the middle of the arc.
2. The fact of being late; lateness.
1599Nashe Lenten Stuffe 33 [They] furrowe vp the rugged brine and sweepe through his tumultuous oous [ooze]..rather then in tendring their alleagance they should be benighted with tardity. 1601Bp. W. Barlow Defence 41 For tarditie and suspence of the assent, may arise by some obstacle not remooued. 1638Wotton Let. in Reliq. (1651) 486, I beseech you..not to conceive by the tarditie of my Answer unto you, any faintnesse in the acknowledgment of your favors. |