complicacy
Americannoun
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complicacies
plural
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the state of being complicated; complicatedness.
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a complication.
the numerous complicacies of travel in such a remote country.
noun
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Etymology
Origin of complicacy
1820–30; complic(ate) + -acy, modeled on such pairs as confederacy, confederate
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I'm not an in-season moves coach, mainly because of the complicacy of my defense; it takes a while to adjust to it.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 9, 2011
There is a method of compensation by which the inertia of a cell can almost entirely be overcome, but it would add greatly to the complicacy of the receiving apparatus.
From Wireless Transmission of Photographs Second Edition, Revised and Enlarged 1919 by Marcus J. Martin
The venality of the conquerorʼs administration, the judicial complicacy, want of public works, weak imperial government, and arrogant local rule tended to dismember the once powerful Spanish Empire.
From The Philippine Islands by John Foreman
Everything was simple at Nancepean except the parishioners; but Mark was still too young and too simple himself to apprehend their complicacy.
From The Altar Steps by Compton MacKenzie
Among the earliest tools of any complicacy which a man, especially a man of letters, gets to handle, are his Class-books.
From Sartor Resartus: the life and opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh by Thomas Carlyle
A justice that intends to be exact must front the complicacies in a resolute piercing manner, and will not be tedious.
From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 16 by Thomas Carlyle
Difficulties, complicacies very many, Friedrich can foresee: a Daun's Army and a Lacy's for escort to us; and such a Silesia when we do arrive.
From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 20 by Thomas Carlyle
The splendid and passionate lyrics of Swinburne, with their structural involutions and complicacies, must have been "a dem'd grind."
From Without Prejudice by Israel Zangwill
Suppose it lead to Russian conquests on the Turk, to Austrian complicacies, to one knows not what, and kindle the world round one again!
From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 21 by Thomas Carlyle
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