legerity

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Hence, it would be an unpardonable legerity to close our eyes to the dangers lurking beneath an apparent passivity.

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  1. noun Quickness or agility of mind or body.

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  • Hence, it would be an unpardonable legerity to close our eyes to the dangers lurking beneath an apparent passivity. —  The New World of Islam
  • Alighting with the legerity of a cat, he swerved leftward in the recoil, and was off, like a streak of mulberry-coloured lightning, down the High. —  Zuleika Dobson, or, an Oxford love story
  • Rather it is hoped that the haecceity of this enchiridion of arcane and recondite sesquipedalian items will appeal to the oniomania of an eximious Gemeinschaft whose legerity and sophrosyne, whose Sprachgefühl and orexis will find more than fugacious fulfillment among its felicific pages. " —  languagehat.com
 

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  1. French légèreté, from Old French legerete, from leger, light; see legerdemain.

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  1. from OF legerite (French légè -reté), lightness, from leger, light: see leger.
 

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