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validity|vəˈlɪdɪtɪ|
Also 6 valydyty(e, 6–7 validitie, 7 vallydety, Sc. validete.
[ad. late L. validitas, f. valid-us valid a. Cf. F. validité (16th c.), It. validità.]
1. The quality of being valid in law; legal authority, force, or strength.
c1550Life Fisher in F.'s Wks. (E.E.T.S.) II. p. l, Two or three daies after, he began to discusse with him the validitie of his maryage. 1561Reg. Privy Council Scot. I. 171 The questioun standis nocht upoun the validitie and invaliditie of the saising. 1608Willet Hexapla Exod. 310 Concerning the validitie of these lawes. 1651Hobbes Leviath. i. xv. 72 The Validity of Covenants begins not but with the Constitution of a Civill Power. 1701Lond. Gaz. No. 3715/4 A Definitive Sentence hath been..given by the Judges Delegates, for the Validity of the Last Will of John Higgs. 1769Blackstone Comm. IV. 315 To consider and determine the validity of appeals or indictments. 1818Cruise Digest (ed. 2) IV. 212 The validity of such a lease was established in the following modern case. 1855Macaulay Hist. Eng. xvii. IV. 77 Much as they hated him, they could not question the validity of his commission. 1884Law Times Rep. L. 2/2 The plaintiff denied the validity of the transfer.
2. The quality of being well-founded on fact, or established on sound principles, and thoroughly applicable to the case or circumstances; soundness and strength (of argument, proof, authority, etc.).
a. In the phrase of{ddd}validity.
1581J. Bell Haddon's Answ. Osorius 488 b, Of no greater valydyty is that Argument lykewyse which they rake out of Augustines wordes. 1599Thynne Animadv. (1810) 21 This ys a mere coniecture, and of no valydytye. 1620Venner Via Recta ii. 34 Neither are their reasons of such validity. 1652Needham tr. Selden's Mare Cl. 145 It remain's in the next place, that wee consider of what validitie the contrarie Opinions of Writers are. 1726G. Shelvocke Voy. r. World 7 Expressions full of contempt of the Commission, making it appear as a thing of hardly any validity or consequence. 1768Phil. Trans. LVIII. 222 No arguments brought in favour of absorption by the common veins appear to me of equal validity with those that can be urged against it. 1803Wellington in Gurw. Desp. (1835) II. 138 note, The assurance contained in his letter..was of equal validity as if given by the most Noble the Governor General.
b. In general use.
1588Fraunce Lawier's Log. i. i. 5 Artificial Logike then is the polyshing of natural wit, as discovering the validitie of everie reason. 1609C. Butler Fem. Mon. (1634) 60 In this point the Philosopher..seemeth to question the validity of his own arguments. 1655Fuller Ch. Hist. iii. 80 Something must be premised about the validity of this writing, learned men much differing therein. 1689G. Harvey Curing Dis. by Expect. i. 1 If Antiquity be capable of conferring Validity, the Art of Expectation..may be termed equally valuable. 1716Pope Lett. (1736) VI. 3 You are doubtless persuaded of the validity of that famous verse ‘'Tis Expectation makes a Blessing dear’. 1793Smeaton Edystone L. §188 To examine the validity of the notion entertained by workmen, respecting Tarras Mortar. 1804Wellington in Gurw. Desp. (1835) III. 552, I do not exactly understand the validity of this objection. 1857Buckle Civiliz. I. vii. 418 Statesmen..who denied the validity of general principles in politics. a1881A. Barratt Phys. Metempiric (1883) 185 That does not alter the validity of the conclusion to be ultimately arrived at.
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a. The quality or state of being physically strong or sound; robustness, strength. Obs.
1578Banister Hist. Man i. 26 The shoulder blades..putting forth a strong ridge..not a little to the augmenting of their validitie. 1601R. Johnson Kingd. & Commw. (1603) 148 Some men maintain great disputation, whether fortresses builte of stone, chalke or earth be of greatest validitie. 1620Markham Farew. Husb. ii. xvii. (1668) 81 The grain wanting his true nourishment, grows withered and of no validity. 1651Wittie tr. Primrose's Pop. Err. iv. xxv. 300 If in debility of strength the bloud be lighter, and in validity of strength it be heavier.
transf.1602Shakes. Ham. iii. ii. 199 Purpose is but the slaue to Memorie, Of violent Birth, but poore validitie. 1750Johnson Rambler No. 29 ⁋13 Some pious persons who..question the validity of their own faith, because they shrink at the thoughts of flames and tortures.
b. Physical value or capacity. rare.
1607Topsell Four-f. Beasts 669 That a Bore or male swine wil not remaine of validity and good for breed past three yeare old. 1868E. Edwards Sir W. Ralegh I. xxv. 612 No hope remained of his validity in active service.
4. Value or worth; efficacy.
Merging into sense 2, from which in some instances it is hardly distinguishable.
1593Harvey New Lett. Wks. (Grosart) I. 290 Some surmounting spirites loue to arreare a huge opinion of their excessiue validity, pro, or contra. 1595in Maitland Club Misc. I. 76 To give in in writt..the estait and validitie of the vicarage of Ruglen. 1601Holland Pliny II. 303 The scrapings that come of sweating in banes and hot-houses, be counted of greater validitie in all these infirmities. 1631F. Lenton Charact. B 10 b, Shee hath lately..giuen her selfe out a brace of hundreds more then ere his estate was worth, besides his debts and legacies, wheras her validity proportionable can scarce absolue those. 1788Franklin Autobiog. Wks. 1840 I. 189 He had too high an opinion of the validity of regular troops. 1793Smeaton Edystone L. §195 The most certain index of the validity of a limestone for Aquatic Buildings. 1809Med. Jrnl. XXI. 101 The character and history of the most celebrated quacks, the ground of their popular fame, and the validity of their various pretences.
†5. pl. Valid powers or capacities. Obs.
1586Day Eng. Secretary i. (1625) 41 Whose spirits caried with greater efficacie of aspiring eternitie then those whose duller conceits are adapted to more terrene and grosse validities. 1597Hooker Eccl. Pol. v. lxii. §13 Nature as much as is possible inclineth vnto validities and preseruations. 1607J. Norden Surv. Dial. ii. 67 You may indeede call these things secrets, because their validities are not suddainly apprehended or found.
6. attrib. and Comb., validity check Computers, a check that data items conform to coding requirements; so validity checking.
1957Control Engin. May 113/2 The double entry system of book-keeping is another example of coding the work so that a validity check is readily available. 1982What's New in Computing Nov. 61/1 The validity checks include field length, ranges, check digit verification and table look⁓up.
1960Communications Assoc. Computing Machinery III. 418 (heading) Combining algol statement analysis with validity checking. |