Talk:emacity

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emacity

Looks like it might be a dictionary-only word. SemperBlotto (talk) 18:51, 6 September 2012 (UTC)

Here is one use I find: http://books.google.com/books?id=caUIAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA37&lpg=PA37&dq=emacity&source=bl&ots=oDBssnxaSw&sig=IhYVA0eh1ZGa1MGxoXoZ-YOFDF4&hl=en&sa=X&ei=kPNIUNqIIurx0gHiy4HQBA&ved=0CEYQ6AEwAw#v=onepage&q=emacity&f=false WilliamKF (talk) 19:04, 6 September 2012 (UTC)

Funny enough, the OED's word of the day email is emacity. They cite two 17th century dictionaries, the later one a word for word copy of the earlier, and then "1806 F. Prevost & F. W. Blagdon Flowers of Lit. 347 The disease of emacity, or itch for buying bargains."--Prosfilaes (talk) 23:40, 6 September 2012 (UTC)

Here's another citation:

2009, William Penn, Love in the Time of Flowers, Trafford, →ISBN, page 161:

But they had not as yet entirely resisted the energetic sellers’ ubiquitously busy hawking, having bought with a surrender to emacity disciplined in spite of excellent purchasing power and no worrisome creditors at their heels, two or more little inessential gauds and bouquet garni from one and the other boutiques and kiosks….

It's from a vanity press, and it's the most excruciatingly purple prose I've read in my life, but I don't think either of those things disqualifies it as an attestation. —Caesura^(t) 00:38, 7 September 2012 (UTC)

I suppose not, but it seems very clear that the author was dictionary- or thesaurus-digging for words appropriate to an older era. Yuck! Equinox ◑ 00:40, 7 September 2012 (UTC)

Here's a third:

1653, Thomas Urquhart, Logopandecteision, reprinted in The Works of Sir Thomas Urquhart (1834), page 332:

…in some measure I descend to the fashion of the shop-keepers, who to scrue up the buyer to the higher price, will tell them no better can be had for mony, ’tis the choicest ware in England, and if any can match it, he shall have it for nought. ¶ So in matter of this literatorie chaffer, I…went on in my laudatives, to procure the greater longing, that an ardent desire might stir up an emacity, to the furtherance of my proposed end.

And here are even more uses, visible only in snippet view on Google Books—not enough to see the full context but enough to see that they're genuine uses:

• “He laughed at people who contracted habits of ‘emacity’ and found they must accumulate…”
• “Obesity and emacity can be easily treated and cured.”

So I would call this cited. —Caesura^(t) 01:16, 7 September 2012 (UTC)

As an aside, I think the last citation is misusing the word. They seem to be considering it, probably by analogy to emaciated, to be the opposite to obesity. I can't find any other citations of that sense, but I wouldn't be surprised if one or two are lurking somewhere. Smurrayinchester (talk) 22:29, 7 September 2012 (UTC)

It has been a week with no objections, so I'm marking this one RFV Passed as cited. WilliamKF (talk) 13:29, 14 September 2012 (UTC)