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Webster 1913 Edition


Vernility

Ver-nil′i-ty

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Noun.
[L.
vernilitas
.]
Fawning or obsequious behavior; servility.
[R.]
Bailey.

Webster 1828 Edition


Vernility

VERNIL'ITY

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Noun.
[L. vernilis, from verna, a slave.] Servility; fawning behavior, like that of a slave. [Not in use.]

Definition 2024


vernility

vernility

English

Noun

vernility (uncountable)

  1. (obsolete, rare) Fawning or obsequious behaviour; servility.
    • 1838, Lachlan MacLean, An Historical and Genealogical Account of the Clan Maclean:
      Still, though the people were thus unarmed, and therefore totally incapable of the least opposition, Argyle and Leslie spread their rebels, under the command of the adjutantgeneral Sir James Turner; whose vernility, added to-a certain species []