vernility
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 […]