Lexicographical Neighbors of Queerity
Literary usage of Queerity
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Spectator by Joseph Addison, Richard Steele (1803)
"I. That no person whatsoever shall be adn without a visible queerity in his
aspect, or pei cast of countenance; of which the president ant cers for the time ..."
2. Allen's Synonyms and Antonyms by Frederic Sturges Allen (1920)
"Referring to what is odd: quality, fantastic, crank, queerity (rare), oddness (rare),
gig (Eng.; chiefly Eton slang). Antonyms: see COMMONPLACE. oddments, ..."
3. Works of J. Fenimore Cooper by James Fenimore Cooper (1893)
"Isn't he a queerity ! Now I can consort with such a sailor as yourself, Eau-
douce, and find nothing very contrary in our gifts, though yours belong to the ..."
4. Appletons' Journal (1879)
"Woman's a queerity ! She's a sphinx, the source of the Nile. She's the arithmetic
that makes two and two five. She's the creature that men will fight for ..."
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