minacity
English
editEtymology
editFrom Late Latin minacitas, from Latin minax (“threatening”) + -itas (“-ity: forming abstract nouns”).
Noun
editminacity (usually uncountable, plural minacities)
- Synonym of menace: The action or process of threatening or the tendancy to threaten.
- 1864, Leigh Hunt, The Seer, or, Common-Places Refreshed, volume II, page 278:
- ...Nor is the district without its historical minacities...
Related terms
editReferences
edit- “minacity”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.