cecity

American

[see-si-tee] / ˈsi sɪ ti /

noun

blindness.

cecity British

/ ˈsiːsɪtɪ /

noun

a rare word for blindness See blindness

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Etymology

Origin of cecity

1525–30; from Latin caecitās, equivalent to caecus ”blind“ + -ity

Example Sentences

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Very nice books, though I see you underrate my cecity: I could no more read their beautiful Bible than I could sail in heaven.

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What had our Arthur gain'd, to stop and see, After light's term, a term of cecity, A Church once large and then grown strait in soul?

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You have divine insights, as we all have, of heaven, all of us with whom the mortal mind does not cake and obstruct into cecity.

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