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单词 gratility
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gratilityn.

/ɡrəˈtɪlɪti/
Forms: 1600s gratillity; Scottish 1800s gratility.
Origin: A variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymon: gratuity n.
Etymology: Humorous alteration of gratuity n., perhaps after gentility n.
In the Shakespeare passage the clown's humorous perversion for gratuity; so jocularly used by Scott.
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a1616 W. Shakespeare Twelfth Night (1623) ii. iii. 25 ..I sent thee sixe pence for thy Lemon, hadst it? Clo. I did impeticos thy gratillity . View more context for this quotation
1829 W. Scott Jrnl. 6 June (1946) 78 Caddell lent me £10,——funny enough, after all our grand expectations, for Croesus to want such a gratility.
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