supinity

Definitions

The quality of being supine; negligence; laziness; heedlessness.

obsolete, uncountable

Examples

“The Supinity of elder dayes hath left so much in silence, or time hath so martyred the Records, that the most industrious heads do finde no easie work⟳ to erect a new Britannia.”

“1769, Pierre Henri Treyssac de Vergy, The Mistakes of the Heart: or Memoirs of Lady Carolina Pelham and Lady Victoria Nevil, London: J. Murdoch, Volume 3, Letter 5, p. 41, It was a mistake⟳ of my heart, a deceit of my imagination. Carolina, who ever thought it would at last⟳ prove⟳ so, often inveighed against my supinity, and advised me to listen⟳ to reason⟳.—I never did […]”

“If the government bestows credit upon big financial institutions and then borrows it back it is certainly a manifestation of governmental supinity.”

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