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cecity

[ see-si-tee ]

noun



cecity

/ ˈ²õ¾±Ë²õɪ³Ùɪ /

noun

  1. a rare word for blindness See blindness
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged†2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of cecity1

1525–30; from Latin ³¦²¹±ð³¦¾±³ÙÄå²õ, equivalent to caecus â€blind“ + -ity
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of cecity1

C16: from Latin ³¦²¹±ð³¦¾±³ÙÄå²õ, from caecus blind
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But to perceive this the mentally blind are as incapable as the physically blind; and such, mental cecity is as general in these days as myopy is common in the schoolrooms of this generation.

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He was a Romanist, but had he not recovered in some degree from the cecity of superstition, he had not so keenly exposed, as he has done, some vulgar impostures.

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Very nice books, though I see you underrate my cecity: I could no more read their beautiful Bible than I could sail in heaven.

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What had our Arthur gain'd, to stop and see, After light's term, a term of cecity, A Church once large and then grown strait in soul?

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You have divine insights, as we all have, of heaven, all of us with whom the mortal mind does not cake and obstruct into cecity.

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