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clarity|ˈklærɪtɪ|
Forms: 4–5 clarte, clarete, clarite, 5 claretee, 6–7 claritie, 6– clarity.
[Originally ME. clarté, a. OF. clarté:—L. clāritāt-em clearness, f. clār-us clear. This early form has been changed in two directions: first by assimilation to clere, cleer, clear, it became clerté, cleerte, clerete (cf. surety), which became obs. in 16th c.; secondly under influence of the Lat. original, it became clarité, claritie, clarity (cf. purity, security, etc.); this became almost obs. by 1700, but has been revived by many modern writers, and is now frequent in sense 4.]
†1. Brightness, lustre, brilliancy, splendour. Obs. (An exceedingly common sense in 17th c.)
c1400Mandeville xxii. 239 A charboncle..that in the nyght ȝeveth..gret clarte and schynynge. 1475Caxton Jason 85 As light as it had ben daye by the clarte and resplendour of torches. 1609Bible (Douay) Isa. xxx. comm., This claritie of sunne and moone. 1627Feltham Resolves ii. xxvi. Wks. (1677) 213 The light and clarity of the enlivening Sun. 1691–8Norris Pract. Disc. 177 The Angelical Clarity and Divine Temper of our Resurrection Body.
†b. with pl. Obs.
1652Benlowes Theoph. v. lvii, Sols radiant fulgence in meridian skies Seem'd shade unto those Clarities.
†c. fig. ‘Light’. Obs.
1657Jer. Taylor Meas. Friendship (1678) 18 Friendship is..the Counsellor of our doubts, the Clarity of our minds.
†2. Glory, divine lustre. Obs.
c1340Cursor M. 29554 (Cott. Galba), Till his clarete he vs ken, thurgh prayers of his moder. c1380Wyclif Sel. Wks. I. 405 Y wole þat þei be þere þat Y am, þat þei see my clarite which þou hast ȝovun me. 1549Bp. Hooper Decl. 10 Commandm. vii. Wks. (1843–52) 344 The clarity and brightness of the Son of Man coming to judgment. 1675Traherne Chr. Ethics xxvi. 411 The further regions of clarity and glory.
†3. Illustrious quality; lustre of renown. Obs.
1616Bullokar, Claritie, Noblenesse. 1679Hobbes Behemoth (1840) 242 Obscure men that could receive no clarity but from the flame of the state.
4. Clearness: in various current uses; e.g. of colour, sky, atmosphere, sight, intellect, judgement, conscience, style.
1616Bullokar, Claritie, cleerenesse. 1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. 1 Weakly deluded in the clarity of their understanding. 1650H. Brooke Conserv. Health 57 Clarity of the Aire. 1651Fuller Abel Rediv., Abbot (1867) II. 304 Illustrated by the nitour and clarity of a perspicuous style. 1657Tomlinson Renou's Disp. 736 It augments the clarity of the eye. 1697Verdicts Virg. & Homer vi. 24 Clarty being the first Vertue of Eloquence..good Sense requires that we think always clearly. 1719Hauksbee Phys.-Mech. Exp. v. (ed. 2) 171 The uniform Clarity and Perspicuity of the Figure. 1859Sala Tw. round Clock (1861) 99 You marvel at the force, the clarity, the perspicuity of the grand old man. 1869Browning Ring & Bk. x. 1646 The very clarity of heaven. 1871R. Ellis Catullus lxix. 4 A cherish'd gem's clarity. |