imitancy
English edit
Etymology edit
From Latin imitans, present participle of imitare.
Noun edit
imitancy (uncountable)
- Tendency to imitation.
- 1832, Thomas Carlyle, Boswell's Life of Johnson:
- Or, the servile imitancy, and yet also a nobler relationship and mysterious union to one another which lies in such imitancy, of Mankind might be illustrated under the different figure (itself nowise original) of a Flock of Sheep.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “imitancy”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)