mordacity

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Latin mordacitas. Compare French mordacité. See mordacious.

Noun[edit]

mordacity (usually uncountable, plural mordacities)

  1. The quality of being mordacious; biting severity, or sarcastic quality.
    • 1631, Francis [Bacon], “(please specify |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], 3rd edition, London: […] William Rawley; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC:
      such things as have very thin parts , yet notwithstanding are without all acrirumony or mordacity
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