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Definition of Exility
1. n. Smallness; meagerness; slenderness; fineness, thinness.
Definition of Exility
1. Noun. Thinness, smallness; a shrunken or meagre condition. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Exility
1. slenderness [n EXILITIES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Exility
Literary usage of Exility
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Works of Francis Bacon by John Thomas Scharf, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Francis Bacon, James Spedding, Robert Leslie Ellis, Douglas Denon Heath, William Rawley (1876)
"For exility of the voice or other sounds ; it is certain that the voice doth pass
through solid and hard bodies, if they be not too thick ; and through ..."
2. The Works of Francis Bacon, Lord Chancellor of England: With a Life of the by Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu (1859)
"Experimente in contort touching the magnitude and exility and damps of sound».
138. Take a trunk, and let one whistle at the one end, and hold your ear at ..."