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Webster 1913 Edition
Salacity
Sa-lac′i-ty
,Noun.
[L.
salacitas
: cf. F. salacité
] Strong propensity to venery; lust; lecherousness.
Definition 2024
salacity
salacity
English
Noun
salacity (usually uncountable, plural salacities)
- (uncountable) The state or quality of being salacious; lewdness, obscenity, bawdiness.
- 1621, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, II.ii.2:
- Aristotle gives instance in sparrows, which are parum vivaces ob salacitatem, short-lived because of their salacity, which is very frequent […].
- 1621, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, II.ii.2:
- (countable) An act which is salacious, (lewd, obscene or bawdy).
Translations
the state or quality of being salacious
a salacious act