callidity
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
callidity (countable and uncountable, plural callidities)
- (obsolete) craftiness, cunning
- 1752, Christopher Smart, Poems on Several Occasions, The Hop Garden:
- Her eagle-ey'd callidity, deceit,
And fairy fiction rais'd above her sex
References[edit]
- “callidity”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.