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Definition of Torridity
1. Noun. Extreme heat.
Definition of Torridity
1. n. Torridness.
Definition of Torridity
1. Noun. The property of being torrid. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Torridity
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Torridity
Literary usage of Torridity
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1920)
"... the engineers were compelled to devise means to ameliorate the resulting
conditions of torridity, in which the temperature frequently rose to 110° F. ..."
2. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Held at Philadelphia for by American Philosophical Society (1922)
"... and the lower Miocene of Florida (it is obvious that the advocates of former
torridity can exactly reverse the bread-fruit argument), so that one must ..."
3. Certain Delightful English Towns: With Glimpses of the Pleasant Country Between by William Dean Howells (1906)
"... in the torridity of an adoptive climate, but our ancestral suns were no hotter
than those of the English are now; and where we have kept their effect in ..."
4. Certain Delightful English Towns: With Glimpses of the Pleasant Country Between by William Dean Howells (1906)
"We boil in the torridity of an adoptive climate, but our ancestral suns were no
hotter than those of the English are now; and where we have kept their ..."
5. Records of the Columbia Historical Society, Washington, D.C. by J. Kirkpatrick Flack (1920)
""He was a discoverer and sought the discoverable without regard to personal danger
and discomfort in the torridity of Africa and in the pestilential airs of ..."
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