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stoicity en · NOUN

Etymology

Calque of French stoïcité. Only attested in the writing of Ben Jonson, poet and playwright. By surface analysis, stoic + -ity.

Meanings

  1. (obsolete, uncountable) Stoicism.
    • Talk me of pins, and feathers, and ladies, and rushes, and such things, and leave this stoicity alone till thou mak'st sermons 1609 December (first performance), Beniamin Ionson [i.e., Ben Jonson], “Epicoene, or The Silent Woman. A Comœdie. […]”, in The Workes of Beniamin Ionson (First Folio), London: […] Will[iam] Stansby, published 1616, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):