vicety

English

Etymology

From vice (“a fault”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈvaɪsɪti/

Noun

vicety (countable and uncountable, plural viceties)

1. (obsolete) fault; defect; coarseness
   • 1633, Ben Jonson, The King's Entertainment at Welbeck:

     Here is to the fruit of Pem,
     Grafted upon Stub his stem,
     With the Peakish nicety,
     And old Sherewood's vicety

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “vicety”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)