livityn.
/ˈlɪvᵻti/, U.S. /ˈlɪvədi/, Caribbean English /ˈlɪvɪti/ Chiefly Jamaican (esp. in the context of Rastafarianism).
The Rastafarian way of life.
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1979 Daily Gleaner (Kingston, Jamaica) 9 June 10/2 ‘Babylon’ is the African experience in the Third World in its most Totalitarian (Undemocratic) form, most suppressive of the ‘I’—the very roots substance of life for all black people concerned with ‘Livity’—Life.
1980 Caribbean Q. 26 26 We can now examine Rastafari on three levels: the foundation, the livity and the social organization.
1987 T. Sewell Garvey's Children 107 The Rasta says you can't take the spiritual properties of life for granted because this is our livity.
2008 Age (Melbourne) (Nexis) 12 Apr. (A2 section) 12 We call the Rastafari philosophy ‘livity’; it's about freedom, repatriation, justice.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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