vernility
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
vernile + -ity, from Latin vernilitas.
Noun[edit]
vernility (uncountable)
- (obsolete, rare) Fawning or obsequious behaviour; servility.
- 1838, Lachlan MacLean, An Historical and Genealogical Account of the Clan Maclean:
- Still, though the people were thus unarmed, and therefore totally incapable of the least opposition, Argyle and Leslie spread their rebels, under the command of the adjutantgeneral Sir James Turner; whose vernility, added to-a certain species […]