10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ASTUCITY»
Discover the use of
astucity in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
astucity and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
Chapter. II. Your. Amazing. Astucity. Acuity. Here's some good news. You don't
have to learn every word of everything you readin college. You only have to learn
the important parts. How do you decide which parts are important? You merely ...
Vicki Vernon Lott, Vicki Vernon Lott and Clifton Estus Laird, 2008
Toughness plus astucity : — perhaps a simple wooden mast set up in Palace-
Yard, well soaped and duly presided over, might be the honester method ? Such
a method as this by trial of talk, for filling your chief offices in Church and State,
was ...
Alas, Mr. Bull, I do find it is all little other than a proof of toughness, which is a
quality I respect, with more or less expenditure of falsity and astucity superadded,
which I entirely condemn. Toughness plus astucity:—perhaps a simple wooden ...
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Latter-day Pamphlets ...
Alas, Mr. Bull, I do find it is all little other than a proof of toughness, which is a
quality I respect, with more or less expenditure of falsity and astucity superadded,
which I entirely condemn. Toughness plus astucity: — perhaps a simple wooden
...
Thomas Carlyle, Henry Duff Traill, 1872
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Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Thesaurus
... argute, astute, cagey, heady, perspicacious, sagacious, || savvy astucity n syn
WIT 3, acumen, astuteness, clear-sightedness, discernment, discrimination,
keenness, penetration, percipi- ence, shrewdness astute adj 1 syn SHREWD,
argute, ...
Merriam-Webster, Inc, 1988
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The Works of Thomas Carlyle
Alas, Mr. Bull, I do find it is all little other than a proof of toughness, which is a
quality I respect, with more or less expenditure of falsity and astucity superadded,
which I entirely condemn. Toughness plus astucity : — perhaps a simple wooden
...
Thomas Carlyle, Henry Duff Traill, 2010
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Origins: A Short Etymological Dictionary of Modern English
See the 2nd STRAIN, para 5. astrolabe; astrology; para 7. astute, whence
astuteness (suffix -ness); astucious, astucity. Astute comes from L asttitus, itself
from astus, skill, craft, cunning, perh (cf var astu) from Gr 6010, a city, for 'faaw,
wastu, ...
Stupid, pudding-faced as he looks and is, there is a vulpine astucity in him ; and
then a wholeness, a heartiness, a kind of blubbery impetuosity, an oiliness so
plausible-looking : give him only length of life, he will rise to the top of his
profession ...
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The Chambers Dictionary
Also adj. astrut f-sirul'. (archaic) adv protrudingly- distendedly. — adj protruding:
distended, [a-1 and strut ] astucious. astuciously. astucity. See astute. astun. See
astonish. astute as- or ts-iui', or (in US ) -tool', ad/ shrewd; perceptive, sagacious;
...
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A Supplementary English Glossary
ASTUCITY ss of concealing his own. — Scott, Quentin Oitrmrd, i. 170. It was
iudeed natural that one who seldom saw tilings according to their real forms and
outlines should view them according to the light in which they wert presented to
him ...
Thomas Lewis Owen Davies, James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps, 1881
