vernility

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noun

Fawning or obsequious behaviour; servility.

OriginLatin vernilitas →
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Meanings

nounvernility (uncountable)
  1. obsoleterareuncountableFawning or obsequious behaviour; servility.

    Still, though the people were thus unarmed, and therefore totally incapable of the least opposition, Argyle and Leslie spread their rebels, under the command of the adjutantgeneral Sir James Turner; whose vernility, added to-a certain species […]

    1838, Lachlan MacLean, An Historical and Genealogical Account of the Clan Maclean

Origin

  1. Latinvernilitas
  2. Englishvernility

From vernile + -ity, from Latin vernilitas.

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APA

vernility. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/vernility

MLA

“vernility.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/vernility. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “vernility,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/vernility.

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