eupepticity
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[edit]Noun
[edit]eupepticity (uncountable)
- (rare) The quality of being eupeptic.
- 1890 August 23, The Scots Observer, volume 4, page 352:
- The East Neuk indeed is infinitely more suggestive of a Stevensonian tragedy than the Ayrshire village, with the valley of the Stinchar steeped in peace and eupepticity behind it, which has given its name to the grimmest and keenest story of human diabolism ever written.
- 1898, Thomas Carlyle, History of Friedrich II of Prussia:
- He is now turned of forty: no man has been in such adventures, has swum through such seas of transcendent eupepticity determined to have its fill.
- 1907 June, William Wallace, “Ian Maclaren”, in The Bookman, volume 32, page 92:
- Eupeptic, energetic, with the eupepticity and energy of a hardy, honourable, and, in every sense, well-brought up boy, Watson was bound to be an all—round successful man.