ultroneity

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noun

The quality of being ultroneous.

Scrabble 13

Meanings

nounultroneity (countable and uncountable, plural ultroneities)

plural ultroneities

  1. archaicuncountableThe quality of being ultroneous.

    Notwithstanding that admonition, they do choose to answer; and, in so doing, they evince ultroneity to a degree that is highly suspicious.

    1901, John Rankine, The Scots Revised Reports: Court of Session, Second Series
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    […] but it is now held that the mere fact of the ultroneity of a witness, i.e. his offering his testimony without citation, is not of itself a barrier to his admissibility.

    1851, James George Wood, The Law of Libel: a Treatise on the Forms of Judicial Procedure in the Courts of the Church of Scotland
  2. archaiccountableUltroneous behaviour.

Origin

  1. Latinultroneitas
  2. Englishultroneity

From ultrone(ous) + -ity, from Latin ultroneitas.

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Chicago

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