imbonity
English
Noun
imbonity (countable and uncountable, plural imbonities)
- (obsolete, rare) Lack of goodness.
- 1621, Robert Burton, The anatomy of melancholy:
- 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 […]
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