procacityとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

procacity (usually uncountable, plural procacities)

1. (dated) The state of being procacious; forwardness, pertness, or petulance, or an instance thereof.
   • 1624, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy: What it Is, with All the Kinds, Causes, Symptomes, Prognostickes, and Seuerall Cures of it : in Three Partitions, with Their Severall Sections, Members & Subsections‎, 2nd edition, Henry Cripps, published 1638, page 541:

     In vain are all your flatteries, In vain are all your knaveries, Delights, deceipts, procacities, Sighs, kisses, and conspiracies, And what e're is done by art, To bewitch a lovers heart.

関連する語

• procacious

参照

• “procacity”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
• “procacity”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.