exility

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/ɛkˈsɪlɪti/

noun

Thinness, smallness; a shrunken or meagre condition.

OriginLatin exilitatem →
Scrabble 17
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Meanings

nounexility (uncountable)
  1. uncountableThinness, smallness; a shrunken or meagre condition.

    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.

    1658, Sir Thomas Browne, Urne-Burial, Penguin, published 2005, page 15

Origin

  1. Latinexilitatem
  2. Englishexility

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

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APA

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MLA

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Chicago

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