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- noun Plural form of
shrewdity .
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The miller was one of those good souls who live by the light of a few small shrewdities (often proverbial), and pique themselves on sticking to them to such a point, as if it were the greater virtue to abide by a narrow rule the less it applied.
Jan of the Windmill Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing 1863
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