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dulcity

noun

  1. Sweetness (literal and figurative).

    literary, uncountable

    And amongſt other fruits as Orenges (which are ſweet, ſucculent and daintie) of ſo pleaſant a taſte and relliſh, that they affect the eater wonderfully offering the rinde with no leſſe pleaſure then the iuice, both which ſeeme to haue dulcitie and Acrimony mixt together[…]

Where it comes from

Learned borrowing from Latin dulcitās. By surface analysis, dulce + -ity.

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry dulcity (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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