aquilinity

English

Etymology

aquiline +‎ -ity

Noun

aquilinity (countable and uncountable, plural aquilinities)

The quality of being aquiline (resembling an eagle).
Synonym: aquilineness
- 1866, James Payn, The Clyffards of Clyffe, London: Hurst and Blackett, Volume 2, Chapter 2, p. 24,
  These idols, though representing the softer sex as often as the masculine, were by no means remarkable for personal beauty. Not one had been permitted to retain its entire complement of limbs, and if a lady had managed to preserve the aquilinity of her nose, she might consider herself a fortunate exception.
- 1933, John Galsworthy, Over the River, Toronto: The Ryerson Press, Chapter 5, p. 32,
  Aunt Em was working at a new piece of French tapestry, her slight aquilinity emphasised by tortoise-shell spectacles.
- 1999, David Foster Wallace, “Tri-Stan: I Sold Sissee Nar to Ecko” in Brief Interviews with Hideous Men, Boston: Little, Brown,
  […] & so it came to pass that, on the same week Sissee Nar’s nose was Enhanced into eternal aquilinity, Nar & Tri-Stan’s much-ballyhooed Satyr-Nymph Network was born & licensed for analog broadcast.

单词	aquilinity
释义	aquilinity English Etymology aquiline +‎ -ity Noun aquilinity (countable and uncountable, plural aquilinities) The quality of being aquiline (resembling an eagle). Synonym: aquilineness 1866, James Payn, The Clyffards of Clyffe, London: Hurst and Blackett, Volume 2, Chapter 2, p. 24, These idols, though representing the softer sex as often as the masculine, were by no means remarkable for personal beauty. Not one had been permitted to retain its entire complement of limbs, and if a lady had managed to preserve the aquilinity of her nose, she might consider herself a fortunate exception. 1933, John Galsworthy, Over the River, Toronto: The Ryerson Press, Chapter 5, p. 32, Aunt Em was working at a new piece of French tapestry, her slight aquilinity emphasised by tortoise-shell spectacles. 1999, David Foster Wallace, “Tri-Stan: I Sold Sissee Nar to Ecko” in Brief Interviews with Hideous Men, Boston: Little, Brown, […] & so it came to pass that, on the same week Sissee Nar’s nose was Enhanced into eternal aquilinity, Nar & Tri-Stan’s much-ballyhooed Satyr-Nymph Network was born & licensed for analog broadcast.
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