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Same as Frumenty.

Safety; security. [Obs.] Howell.

Want of comity; incivility; rudeness. [R.]

Want of conformity; nonconformity. [Obs.]

eakness; esp., an unsound, unhealthy, or debilitated state; a disease; a malady; as, infirmity of body or mind. 'T is the infirmity of his age. Shak.

Want of regular form; shapelessness. [Obs.]

Disposition to bear injuries patiently; forbearance; patience. Jer. Taylor.

The quality of being magnanimous; greatness of mind; elevation or dignity of soul; that quality or combination of qualities, in character, which enables one to encounter danger and trouble with tranquility and firmness, to disdain injustice, meanness and revenge, and to act and sacrifice for noble objects.…

The quality of being multiform; diversity of forms; variety of appearances in the same thing. Purchas.

Neglect or failure of conformity; especially, in England, the neglect or refusal to unite with the established church in its rites and modes of worship.

The condition or quality of having every form. Dr. H. More.

The state of being best. [R.] Bailey.

or quality of having a little or ignoble mind; pettiness; meanness; -- opposed to magnanimity. De Quincey.

Anticipative or antecedent conformity. Coleridge.

Quality of being first; primitiveness. [Obs.] Bp. Pearson.

nfluence, etc.; immediate nearness, either in place, blood, or alliance. If he plead proximity of blood That empty title is with ease withstood. Dryden.

The using of fictitious names, as by authors.

e quality of being pusillanimous; weakness of spirit; cowardliness. The badge of pusillanimity and cowardice. Shak. It is obvious to distinguished between an act of . . . pusillanimity and an act of great modesty or humility. South.

The quality or state of being sublime (in any sense of the adjective).

The height or top of anything. [Obs.] Swift.