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Latinity
[ luh-tin-i-tee ]
noun
- knowledge or use of the Latin language:
He bemoaned the lack of Latinity among today's scholars.
- Latin style or idiom.
Latinity
/ ləˈtɪnɪtɪ /
noun
- facility in the use of Latin
- Latin style, esp in literature
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If these verses were composed in good Latinity, the first word of the pentameter probably was justitiam.
Without the remoteness of the Latinity the thought would come too close and shake too cruelly.
What lot more cursed than to quit the pure ether of Latinity for the lower region of matter?
It is indeed capable of proof that in the purest ages of Latinity some variation existed between these two.
Nobody ever carried further the pedantic affectation of avoiding modern terms in his Latinity.
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