annosity

English

Etymology

From the Latin annōsitās (“fullness of years”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: ənōʹsĭtĭ, IPA^(key): /əˈnəʊsɪtɪ/

Noun

annosity (uncountable)

1. (rare) Fullness of years; great length of life; agedness; lengthiness of life span.
   • 1654, Hamon L’Estrange, The Reign of King Charles, an History faithfully and impartially delivered and disposed into Annals, page 136:

     Robert Parr…the wonder of our times for annosity and long life.

   • 1994, The Economist, volume 332, numbers 7879-7882, page 84:

     […] the guardian of this columbarium — he missed that one — is plainly not a pedant at all. He just has a quirky love of words. Johnson wishes him annosity of his […]

Translations

fullness of years

• Dutch: ouderdom (nl) m
• Portuguese: anosidade f

References

• An Universal Etymological English Dictionary, by Nathan Bailey (1742 edition)
    Annosity, Agedness.
• A Compleat Dictionary English and Dutch, to which is added a Grammar, for both Languages, by William Sewel [compil.] and Egbert Buys [ed.] (1766), volume 1, page 21
    ANNOSITY, Ouderdom.
• Dictionary of the Synonymous Words and Technical Terms in the English Language, by James Leslie (1806), page 7
    AGEDNESS. s. Annosity.
• Encyclopædia Perthensis; or, Universal Dictionary of the Arts, Sciences, Literature, &c. (2^nd Ed.; 1816), volume II, page 183
    ANNOSITY, agedneſs. Bailey.
• “†aˈnnosity” listed in the Oxford English Dictionary [2^nd Ed.; 1989]