Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The quality of being surd, in any sense; deafness; nonvocality.
Wiktionary
- n. obsolete deafness
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. obsolete Deafness.
Etymologies
- Latin surditas. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Should only then every stronger and livelier emotion be termed enthusiasm and ab« surdity? —”
Internet Archive: Sermons on Prevalent Errors, and Vices and on Various Other Topics
“There is cod - surdity, and met with no success, siderable merit in this play.”
Internet Archive: Biographia dramatica, or, A companion to the playhouse:
“This piece, written by the author of Hurhthrumlo,. wqs, like that, full of madness and ab - surdity, yet, like that, had in i | many strokes of wonderful ima -. nation.”
Internet Archive: Biographia dramatica, or, A companion to the playhouse:
“His aunt’s voice came loudly from the garden room, surdity now having apparently been loaded upon old Mrs. Houlihan’s other misfortunes.”
“Any demand for equality which goes beyond that, of necessity passes into ab - surdity” (Anti-Dühring, in Abernethy, pp. 199-200).”
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