callidity

English

Etymology

Latin calliditas.

Noun

callidity (countable and uncountable, plural callidities)

  1. (obsolete) craftiness, cunning
    • 1752, Christopher Smart, Poems on Several Occasions, The Hop Garden:
      Her eagle-ey'd callidity, deceit,
      And fairy fiction rais'd above her sex

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