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Webster 1913 Edition


Exility

Ex-il′ity

,
Noun.
[L.
exilitas
: cf. F.
exilité
. See
Exile
,
Adj.
]
Smallness; meagerness; slenderness; fineness, thinness.
[R.]
Paley.

Webster 1828 Edition


Exility

EXIL'ITY

,
Noun.
[L. exilitas.] Slenderness; fineness; thinness.

Definition 2024


exility

exility

English

Noun

exility (uncountable)

  1. Thinness, smallness; a shrunken or meagre condition.
    • 1658: But from the exility of bones, thinnesse of skulls, smallnesse of teeth, ribbes, and thigh-bones; not improbable that many thereof were persons of minor age, or women. — Sir Thomas Browne, Urne-Burial (Penguin 2005, p. 15)