exility

English

Etymology

From Latin exilitatem, from exilis (“small, thin, narrow”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛkˈsɪlɪti/

Noun

exility (uncountable)

1. Thinness, smallness; a shrunken or meagre condition.
   • 1658, Sir Thomas Browne, Urne-Burial, Penguin, published 2005, page 15:

     But from the exility of bones, thinnesse of skulls, smallnesse of teeth, ribbes, and thigh-bones; not improbable that many thereof were persons of minor age, or women.