terreity

English

Noun

terreity (uncountable)

1. (obsolete) The quality of being earthy.

   Synonym: earthiness

   • 1610 (first performance), Ben[jamin] Jonson, The Alchemist, London: […] Thomas Snodham, for Walter Burre, and are to be sold by Iohn Stepneth, […], published 1612, →OCLC; reprinted Menston, Yorkshire: The Scolar Press, 1970, →OCLC, (please specify the GB page), (please specify the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):

     The aqueity, Terreity, and sulphureity
     Shall run together again, and all be annulled

References

• “terreity”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.