cecity

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After light's term, a term of cecity,

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  1. Blindness. [Now rare.] There is in them [moles] no cecity, yet more than a cecutiency. Sir T. Browne, Vulg. Err., iii. 18. Here [in Arabia], as in Egypt, a blind Muezzin is preferred, and many ridiculous stories are told about men who for years have counterfeited cecity to live in idleness. R. F. Burton, El-Medinah, p. 383.

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  • After light's term, a term of cecity, —  Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold
  • I can only marvel at the utter want of comprehension and appreciation with which this critic read what he wrote about: one hemisphere of his brain must have been otherwise occupied and his mental cecity makes him a phenomenon even amongst reviewers. —  Arabian nights. English
  • ‘cecity’ (Hooker), ‘fastide’ and ‘trutinate’ (_State Papers_), —  English Past and Present
  • After light's term, a term of cecity: the best hope for the future, that light will return and banish the follies, sophistries, delusions, which have accumulated in the darkness. —  Matthew Arnold
  • You have divine insights, as we all have, of heaven, all of us with whom the mortal mind does not cake and obstruct into cecity. —  The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Volume II
 

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  1. Also cæcity, after the L.; from French cécité = Provencal cecitat, ceguetat = Spanish ceguedad (cf. Portuguese cegueira) = Italian cecità, from Latin cæcitas, blindness, from cæcus, blind: see cæcum.
 

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