nugacity

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  1. Futility; triviality; something trifling or nonsensical. But such arithmetical nugacities as are ordinarily recorded for his, in dry numbers, to have been the riches of the wisdome of so famous a Philosopher, is a thing beyond all credit or probability. Dr. H. More, Def. of Philos. Cabbala, i.

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  1. from Latin nugacita (t-)s, a trifling playfulness, from Latin nugax, trifling: see nugacious.
 

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