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Latinity|ləˈtɪnɪtɪ|
[ad. L. latīnitātem, f. Latīnus: see Latin and -ity.]
1. The manner of speaking or writing Latin; Latin (with reference to its construction or style).
In the first quot. the sense of the word is doubtful, and the text insecure.
1619in Crt. & Times Jas. I (1848) II. 172 One Shingleton..who preaching in Pauls..glanced, they say, scandalously at him [Bacon], and his Latinities, as he called them. a1656Hall Rem. Wks. (1660) 241 The Romans expressed the womans marriage by, nubere, which signifies to vail... Neither doubt I but before all latinity was hatched this was alluded to by Abimelech, Genes. 20. 16. 1661Boyle Style of Script. (1675) 148 That cardinal..that said, that once indeed he had read the Bible, but if he were to do it again, 'twould lose him all his Latinity. 1781Gibbon Decl. & F. xlvii. II. 738 His latinity is pure. 1826Miss Mitford Village Ser. iii. (1863) 519 [He] used to..growl as he compounded the medicines over the bad latinity of the prescriptions. 1831Carlyle Sart. Res. (1858) 81, I undertook to compose his Epitaph..which, however, for an alleged defect of Latinity..still remains unengraven. 1865Merivale Rom. Emp. VIII. lxiv. 100 The last remains we possess of classical Latinity are the biographies of the later emperors.
2. Roman Law. The status of a Latin citizen.
1880Muirhead Gaius i. §22 note 1 On the nature of colonial latinity see Savigny. Ibid. §96 Latinity is either the greater or the lesser. There is the greater latinity when those who..fill some high office or magistracy, acquire Roman citizenship along with their parents, wives, and children; the lesser, when those who..hold a magisterial or other high office, themselves alone attain to citizenship.
3. Latin character.
1915M. C. Fraser More Italian Yesterdays x. 191 True to their Latinity, they gave their victim no chance of testing it [sc. their mistrust]. 1934G. B. Shaw Prefaces 740/1 By the end of the nineteenth century the press and the theatre had lost all their Latinity. |