terreity
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English
[edit]Noun
[edit]terreity (uncountable)
- (obsolete) The quality of being earthy.
- Synonym: earthiness
- 1610 (first performance), Ben[jamin] Jonson, The Alchemist, London: […] Thomas Snodham, for Walter Burre, and are to be sold by Iohn Stepneth, […], published 1612, →OCLC, (please specify the Internet Archive page), (please specify the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
- The aqueity, Terreity, and sulphureity
Shall run together again, and all be annulled
References
[edit]- “terreity”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.