rotundity

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What was it caused those sharp suggestions in its accustomed rotundity -- those angular points?

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  1. Roundness; sphericity; globular form. And thou, all-shaking thunder, Strike flat the thick rotundity o' the world ! Shak., Lear, iii. 2. 7. The usual French scenery, with its fields cut up by hedges, and a considerable rotundity in its trees. H. James, Jr., Little Tour, p. 97.
  2. Rounded fullness; integral entireness. For the mere rotundity of the number and grace of the matter it passeth for a full thousand. Fuller.
  3. Synonyms See roundness.

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  • My rotundity was the object of not only curiosity but also jesting, some of it pointed but most of it good-natured. —  forestmage
  • At this court it was the fashion for the grandees to emulate each other in rotundity, and when the desired result could not be attained by high feeding, they used wadding, and in spite of the sultry climate, put on a vast number of garments, one over another. —  Life and Travels of Mungo Park in Central Africa
  • The taller of the two, a man whose rotundity was emphasized by his pallor, advanced, beaming upon his host. —  A Wreath for Rivera - also as Swing, Brother, Swing - Ngaio Marsh - Alleyn 15: 1949
  • What was it caused those sharp suggestions in its accustomed rotundity--those angular points In a quiver the man was transformed With a cry such as must have been forced from the Jew of old, compelled by the rough levies of his time to part at once with his teeth and his treasure, Raikes grasped the bag, which came away in his clutch with the agonizing lightness that had preceded his first loss Quickly he unfastened the mouth of the fateful packet and inverted it over the table The next instant there rattled to view a soulless, sodden shower of lack-luster, heart-breaking coals To be continued on Dickey No. —  The Flaw in the Sapphire
  • He had pushed himself over many a ledge with this same pair of legs and on this same rotundity, his hand on his Winchester, before his first ball crashed through the shoulder of the big elk whose glass eyes were now looking down upon Fiddles and ourselves--and he would do it again on another big-horn when the season opened. —  Fiddles 1909
 

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  1. from Old French (and F.) rotondité = Provencal rotonditat = Spanish rotundidad = Portuguese rotundidade = Italian rotondità, from Latin rotundita(t-)s, roundness, from rotundus, rotund, round: see round, rotund.
 

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