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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Same as otiosity.

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Examples

  • Or as I haue obserued in many of the Princes Courts of Italie, to seeme idle when they be earnestly occupied & entend to nothing but mischieuous practizes, and do busily negotiate by coulor of otiation.

    The Arte of English Poesie George Puttenham

  • Or as I haue obserued in many of the Princes Courts of Italie, to seeme idle when they be earnestly occupied & entend to noting but mischieuous practizes, and do busily negotiat by coulor of otiation.

    The Arte of English Poesie 1569

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