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notability|nəʊtəˈbɪlɪtɪ|
Also 4–5 -ite(e, 5 -yte, 6 -ylitie.
[a. OF. notabilité (= It. -ità, Sp. -idad, Pg. -idade) or ad. med.L. *notabilitas: see next and -ity.]
1.
†a. A notable fact or circumstance. Obs.
a1380St. Augustine 1739 in Horstm. Altengl. Leg. (1878) 91 Hit is an old notabilite Þat þreo þingus þer be Þat worldliche men disiren here. c1386Chaucer Nun's Pr. T. 389 He in a cronycle saufly myght it wryte, As for a souereyn notabilitee. c1449Pecock Repr. iv. ix. 474 These iij. notabilitees weel considerid..is worth.. a buyschel ful of gold. c1470Harding Chron. Proem v, Vnto your sapience I wyll remember a notabilyte Of your elders rule and regymence.
b. A noteworthy object or feature. rare—1.
1858Hawthorne Fr. & It. Note-bks. (1872) II. 41 The old sacristy, with the peculiarities or notabilities of which I am not acquainted.
c. A notable or prominent person.
1832J. S. Mill Lett. (1910) I. 33 There is need that the march of mind should raise up new spiritual notabilities; for it seems as though all the old ones with one accord were departing out of the world together. In a few days or weeks the world has lost the three greatest men in it in their several departments—Goethe, Bentham, and Cuvier. 1851Fraser's Mag. XLIII. 257 Along with other ancient ‘notabilities’, Cleopatra and Mark Antony were addicted to the pastime. 1857Kingsley Two Y. Ago I. 206 Various other little notabilities of the neighbourhood. 1897‘Sarah Tytler’ Lady Jean's Son 193 Another notability was the gypsy beauty.
2. The quality of being notable.
a. Housewifely industry or management.
1788A. Hughes Henry & Isabella IV. 93 This grand quality was, in her estimation, divided into two heads, modesty and notability. 1800E. Hervey Mourtray Fam. III. 141 Mrs. Mourtray, who had resumed all her former notability, bustled about her house as usual. 1842J. W. Orderson Creoleana iii. 25 She would..send over little presents of various articles, that served also to show her own notability and domestic skill. 1866Mrs. Gaskell Wives & Dau. I. 530 Mary has infected me with her notability, and I'm going to work Mama a footstool.
b. Note, distinction, prominence.
1881Froude Short Stud. (1883) IV. ii. iv. 207, I need not mention names which have no historical notability. |