legerity
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of legerity
First recorded in 1555–65; from Middle French legerete, equivalent to leger (from unrecorded Vulgar Latin leviārius; see levity, -ary) + -ete -ity
Example Sentences
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He soon learned how to defend himself with a clumsy left jab, how to move his immense feet with astonishing legerity.
From Time Magazine Archive
I began to follow at the same rate, but immediately slackened speed for fear that Watts-Dunton behind us might be embittered at sight of so much youth and legerity.
From And Even Now by Sir Max Beerbohm
Alighting with the legerity of a cat, he swerved leftward in the recoil, and was off, like a streak of mulberry-coloured lightning, down the High.
From Zuleika Dobson, or, an Oxford love story by Sir Max Beerbohm
Hence, it would be an unpardonable legerity to close our eyes to the dangers lurking beneath an apparent passivity.
From The New World of Islam by Lothrop Stoddard
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