Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A following, or disposition to follow; sequaciousness.
  • noun Ductility; pliableness.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun Quality or state of being sequacious; sequaciousness.

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  • noun Quality or state of being sequacious.

Etymologies

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Latin sequacitas.

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Examples

  • He lay limp, with a disquieting, abnormal sequacity, as though every muscle were utterly flaccid; the antithesis of the rigor mortis, thank God, but terrifyingly toward the other end of its arc; a syncope I had never known.

    The Moon Pool 2004

  • He lay limp, with a disquieting, abnormal sequacity, as though every muscle were utterly flaccid; the antithesis of the rigor mortis, thank God, but terrifyingly toward the other end of its arc; a syncope I had never known.

    The Moon Pool 1919

  • He lay limp, with a disquieting, abnormal sequacity, as though every muscle were utterly flaccid; the antithesis of the _rigor mortis_, thank God, but terrifyingly toward the other end of its arc; a syncope I had never known.

    The Moon Pool Abraham Merritt 1913

  • To the scientific mind there is special interest in the sequacity of sheep, their habit of following one another with automatic imitation.

    The Man-Made World; or, Our Androcentric Culture Charlotte Perkins Gilman 1897

  • “_Stand upright on thy feet_” ought to be written over the gate of every college, if the epidemic of uniformity and sequacity which Mill saw approaching from

    Chips From A German Workshop, Vol. V. Miscellaneous Later Essays 1861

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