Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A suffix of Latin or Greek origin, forming nouns of quality, state, condition, office, etc., from nouns in -ate (which becomes -ac-, the suffix being -ate changed to -ac-, + -y), as in primacy, curacy, advocacy, piracy, etc., or from adjectives in -acious, as in
fallacy .
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Examples
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I hope they can pull it off, but I have serious doubts. acy Says:
Matthew Yglesias » A Viable Alternative to Nationalization? 2009
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A 1971 series by the Polish artist Alina Szapocznikow called "Photosculptures" (close-ups of stretched chewing gum) is only the most obvious leg acy of their thinking.
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"No confidences, Watson; for they are mighty awkward if it comes to an arrest for conspir - acy and murder."
Chennai 2010
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The head of S.anford Financial Group had been granted conditional bail Thursday by U.S. Magistrate Frances S.acy in Houston.
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The head of S.anford Financial Group, who is being held on charges he orchestrated a multibillion-dollar Ponzi scheme, had been granted conditional bail Thursday by U.S. Magistrate Frances S.acy in Houston.
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The shoulder rats and head bats come from four's latest piece lune-acy.
The four Yip Fashion Blender à la Alpha Auer... Alpha Auer 2008
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The shoulder rats and head bats come from four's latest piece lune-acy.
Archive 2008-11-01 Alpha Auer 2008
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I think there is a gulf of difference between how the Brits think about privacy (you even say it differently – priv (as in prim) acy) and how North Americans do.
NSFW: Halloween in San Francisco and the gathering clouds of a location-based privacy storm Paul Carr 2005
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S. O'BRIEN: S.acy, you know, I would imagine that the word relief doesn't even come close.
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It was the creation of a $20-million student achieve-ment fund, which will recognize those schools that are achieving the improvement targets they are setting in grade-three reading, by providing to every elementary principal whose school meets or exceeds its student liter-acy goals in grade three, $5,000 that they and the student council can continue to invest in improved learning in their school.
The Ontario Budget 2002
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