seity

English

Etymology

Latin se (“oneself”).

Noun

seity (plural seities)

  1. Something peculiar to oneself.
    • 1709-1711, The Tatler
      The learned Scotus , to distinguish the race of mankind , gives every individual of that species what he calls a Seity, something peculiar to himself , which makes him different from all other persons in the world

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “seity”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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