Meaning of Latinity | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The quality of a particular person's Latin speech or writing; the Latin language, as an area of study or interest.
   countable, uncountable
2. Latin character
   uncountable
3. Latin literature considered as a whole
   uncountable
4. A Latinism
   countable

Examples

“The banns being published, the next difficulty was to find⟳ a bishop who would bless them. One bishop was found, says Buchanan with the severest point⟳ of his elegant Latinity, one, the Bishop of Orkney, who preferred the smiles of a court to the light⟳ of truth, while others declined the task, and pointed out the unhallowed nature of nuptials with him who had already two spouses alive, and had lately obtained himself to be repudiated by a third on the ground of his own⟳ adultery.”

““Well, well,” said the lawyer, when I had quite done, “this is a great epic, a great Odyssey of yours. You must tell⟳ it, sir, in a sound⟳ Latinity when your scholarship is riper; or in English if you please⟳, though for my part I prefer⟳ the stronger tongue. […]”

“Indeed his rendering is so excellent an example of mediæval learning and latinity that, even at the risk⟳ of sating the learned reader with too many antiquities, I have⟳ made up my mind⟳ to give⟳ it in fac-simile, together with an expanded version for the benefit of those who find⟳ the contractions troublesome.”

“Girls might infiltrate the clubhouse but men alone remain⟳ the teachers and theorists of Latinity.”

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