Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Sharpness; keen severity; strictness.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete Sharpness; keenness.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun obsolete
sharpness ;keenness
Etymologies
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Latin acritas, from acer sharp.
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Examples
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What delicious acrity in a situation where I played, not with fire, but — with ashes!
Beatrix 1839
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What delicious acrity in a situation where I played, not with fire, but -- with ashes!
Beatrix Honor�� de Balzac 1824
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We’ve just grown accustomed to getting facts and real investigative reporting here at T.P. and won’t accept this kind of MSM warmed-over media-acrity.
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