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Egality

E-gal′i-ty

,
Noun.
[OE.
egalite
, F.
égalité
.]
Equality.
Chaucer.
Tennyson.

Definition 2024


egality

egality

English

Noun

egality (countable and uncountable, plural egalities)

  1. (obsolete) Equality. [14th-19th c.]
    • c. 1390, Geoffrey Chaucer, Parson's Tale:
      She is the preisynge / of this world, and she is as thise martirs / In egalitee; she hath in hire that tonge may / Nat telle ne herte thynke.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Tennyson to this entry?)