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nimiety|nɪˈmaɪɪtɪ|
[ad. late L. nimietas, f. nimis too much.]
Excess, redundancy; an instance of this.
a1564Becon Christmas Banquet Wks. 1564 I. 20 Although ther ought not to be any sufficiency, much lesse any nimietie in spiritual things. 1625Gill Sacr. Philos., Trin. 229 That nimietie, or excesse of goodness wherein it was created. 1657Reeve God's Plea 204 Man may have his nimieties of expression, his diffluences, redundances..of speech. 1679C. Nesse Antid. agst. Popery 8 Superstition, which is a nimiety and excess in religion. 1772Nugent Hist. Fr. Gerund II. 252 He was not only matchless, but even reached the line of nimiety. 1834Coleridge Table-t. 2 June, There is a nimiety—a too-muchness—in all Germans. 1892Illustr. Lond. News 17 Dec. 776/1 A more serious blemish..with most modern poetry, is nimiety, the tendency to dilute the general effect by..repetition. |