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imbonity en · NOUN

Etymology

From im- (“not”) + Latin bonitās (“goodness”).

Meanings

1. (countable, obsolete, rare, uncountable) Lack of goodness.
   • All fears, griefs, suspicions, discontents, imbonities, insuavities are swallowed up, and drowned in this Euripus, this Irish Sea, this Ocean of misery, as so many small brooks; 'tis coagulum omnium ærumnarum: which Ammianus applyed to his distressed Palladius, I say of our Melancholy man, hee is the cream of humane adversity, the quintessence, and upshots; all other diseases whatsoever, are but flea-bitings to Melancholy in extent […] 1621, Robert Burton, The anatomy of melancholy:
   • Divest yourselves of your imbonity, incogitancy, and malversation; bonity is impetrable; perpend your long-inquity from eupathy, and the inenarrable sequences of your impreparation for the apropinquating catastrophe. 1856, Samuel Klinefelter Hoshour, Letters to Squire Pedant, in the East, page 39:

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