aduncityn.
/əˈdʌnsᵻti/, U.S. /əˈdənsədi/ Now rare.
Esp. with reference to the nose or beak: the quality of being hooked or crooked; crookedness. Also figurative.
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1534 N. Udall Floures for Latine Spekynge gathered oute of Terence f. 158v The vpper parte of theyr bylles or bebes groweth so moche and so farre ouer the nether parte, that the aduncitie or crokednesse therof may not be opened.
1623 H. Cockeram Eng. Dict. Aduncitie, hookednesse.
1741 Mem. Martinus Scriblerus x. 36 in A. Pope Wks. II The Aduncity of the pounces, and beaks of the Hawks..[is] the cause of the great and habitual Immorality of those Animals.
1844 S. K. Hoshour Lett. to Esq. Pedant vii. 21 His nasal protrusion possessed singular tenuity, aduncity, and cacuminated astoundingly.
1891 Athenæum 5 Sept. 330/1 A North-Country Iago, whose moral aduncity is concealed by a self-bestowed title of Square Jack.
1927 J. Pollock Let. 11 May in Holmes-Pollock Lett. (1961) II. viii. 199 The aduncity of our lady the Common Law's nose.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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