Meanings
plural imbonities
- countableobsoleterareuncountableLack of goodness.
Divest yourselves of your imbonity, incogitancy, and malversation; bonity is impetrable; perpend your long-inquity from eupathy, and the inenarrable sequences of your impreparation for the apropinquating catastrophe.
1856, Samuel Klinefelter Hoshour, Letters to Squire Pedant, in the East, page 391 more example
All fears, griefs, suspicions, discontents, imbonities, insuavities are swallowed up, and drowned in this Euripus, this Irish Sea, this Ocean of misery, as so many small brooks; 'tis coagulum omnium ærumnarum: which Ammianus applyed to his distressed Palladius, I say of our Melancholy man, hee is the cream of humane adversity, the quintessence, and upshots; all other diseases whatsoever, are but flea-bitings to Melancholy in extent […]
1621, Robert Burton, The anatomy of melancholy
Origin
- Latinbonitās“goodness”
- Englishimbonity
From im- (“not”) + Latin bonitās (“goodness”).
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