Meaning of hecticity | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The quality of being hectic (very busy with activity and confusion).
   uncountable
2. The quality of being hectic (pertaining to or symptomatic of hectic fever).
   obsolete, uncountable

Examples

“Notwithstanding the hecticity of the murky atmosphere, in which there was not a quiver from the U. S. flag that ornaments the grounds in lieu of a pennant.”

“His contention, developed in these four chapters of his book, is therefore eminently sane and practical, is not developed with the quasi-sentimental hecticity of “programs,” “propositions,” and “concordats” which might completely rupture[…]”

“Jack Dempsey will swear off of so much hecticity.”

“’Twas in sooth the Christmas party, for which the Juniors and the Freshmen had truly in slavish fashion prepared amid the general hecticity of the pre-vacation days.”

“The hectic history of oil exploitation can show nothing for hecticity to equal the effort of exploitation of the last ten years in Venezuela.”

“How about late hours, heated rooms, traffic-dodging down the Portsmouth Road, general hecticity, and the soul-sickness of a futile life?”

“The decreasing of the price-spread shows that the hecticity of the market is decreasing, the market is approaching the equilibrium.”

“The suppurating osteo-myelitis and arthritis did not assume a form sufficiently putrid to cause purulent infection; the patient also escaped hecticity;”

“The author enumerates certain contra-indications; he insists upon hæmarrhage^([sic]) as the principal indication, and shows how the sufferer from hæmorrhoids who, from daily fluxes, has reached the last stage of hecticity, may be immediately restored by a simple and harmless operation;”

“And neither ‘hecticity’ nor purulent fever was produced.”

“That indications for antipyretics should be filled first, and before all others, in the treatment of chronic tubercular disease when the patient is being gradually consumed by slow fever; because, while this fever exists, it may be said to hold out a standing invitation to hecticity, marasmus, and a further extension of inflammation in the lung-tissue.”

“Should suppuration ensue we would have symptoms of hecticity.”

“There is cough, with tenacious mucus and bronchitis, then hecticity.”

“A large proportion are from hecticity or from pulmonary complications after the opening of the cyst into the bronchii.^([sic])”

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