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Webster 1913 Edition
Ponderosity
Ponˊder-os′i-ty
,Noun.
pl.
Ponderosities
(#)
. [OF.
ponderosité
.] The quality or state of being ponderous; weight; gravity; heaviness, ponderousness;
as, the
. ponderosity
of goldRay.
Webster 1828 Edition
Ponderosity
PONDEROS'ITY
,Noun.
Definition 2024
ponderosity
ponderosity
English
Noun
ponderosity (countable and uncountable, plural ponderosities)
- The quality of requiring extensive thought.
- 1858, Anthony Trollope, “IV”, in Doctor Thorne:
- The ponderosity of her qualifications for nobility was sometimes too much even for her mother, and her devotion to peerage was such, that she would certainly have declined a seat in heaven if it offered her without the promise that it should be in the upper house
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- (obsolete) Weight; heaviness.
- Sir Thomas Browne
- Again, whereas men affirm they perceive an addition of ponderosity in dead bodies, comparing them usually unto blocks and stones, whensoever they lift or carry them; this accessional preponderancy is rather in appearance than reality.
- Sir Thomas Browne