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fabulosity|fæbjʊˈlɒsɪtɪ|
[ad. F. fabulosité, ad. L. fābulōsitāt-em, f. fābulōsus: see prec.]
1. The quality of being fabulous; fabulousness.
a. Of persons: Fondness for narrating or inventing fables.
1599Abp. Abbot Descr. World, Chaldea (1634) 112 In their [Chaldeans'] fabulositie they would report that they had..Observations for five and twentie thousand years. 1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. i. vi. 23 The fabulositie of those times.
b. Of a composition, narrative, etc.: Fabulous or mythical character; fictitiousness.
1603Holland Plutarch's Mor. 489 Some..more civilly avoiding the fabulosity of this tale say [etc.]. 1678Cudworth Intell. Syst. 236 Plato..doth but..slily jear it, plainly insinuating the fabulosity thereof. 1741Warburton Div. Legat. II. vi. ii. 490 He supposed the fabulosity of that [Book of Job] concluded against the real existence of the Patriarch. 1777Johnson in Mad. D'Arblay's Early Diary 27 Mar., There is not..much of the spirit of fabulosity in this Fable.
†2. quasi-concr. Something fabulous; a fabulous statement, fable. Obs.
1601Holland Pliny II. 605 That..posterity ensuing may yet be acquainted with their fabulosities. 1681H. More Exp. Dan. Pref. 48 The ridiculous fabulosity of Enoch and Elias their coming again in the Flesh. 1807G. Chalmers Caledonia I. Pref. 8 These form historical matters of singular interest if they be investigated from facts in contempt of fabulosity. |