Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Swiftness of motion; celerity.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun rare Swiftness; celerity.
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- noun archaic
swiftness ;celerity
Etymologies
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Latin pernicitas. See pernicious.
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Examples
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The story concerned a big burly Westerner in love with a Forbidden Asian woman, and it was intended to highlight the pernicity of prejudice, which is why they cast Jennifer Jones as the Asian woman.
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An 'what's more, dey wasn't so pernicity 'bout what dey got.
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