minacity

noun

minacity

noun

Etymology From Late Latin minacitas, from Latin minax (“threatening”) + -itas (“-ity: forming abstract nouns”).

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Usually Synonym of menace: The action or process of threatening or the tendency to threaten.

  • ...Nor is the district without its historical minacities...1864, Leigh Hunt, The Seer, or, Common-Places Refreshed, volume II, page 278:
Related terms
minacious, minacy

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