Perspicuity is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for PERSPICUITY in dictionary:

NOUN:
• the state of being perspicuous, clear, easily understood
• The quality or state of being transparent or translucent.
• The quality of being perspicuous to the understanding; clearness of expression or thought.
• Sagacity; perspicacity.
• clarity as a consequence of being perspicuous
ADJECTIVE:
• able to give an account or express an idea clearly.
• clearly expressed and easily understood; lucid
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• plain to the understanding especially because of clarity and precision of presentation

Words related to PERSPICUITY

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How to use PERSPICUITY in a sentence

• I know no book which contains, in the same compass, more learning, polite literature, sound sense, accuracy of arrangement, and perspicuity of expression.
• He wrote with more perspicuity than he thought, and his hot-headed democracy has done a fearful injury to his country.
• The lucidity and perspicuity of the language of the constitution have called forth expressions of admiration from all who have studied it carefully.
• It looked to everything, and with a reach, perspicuity, and energy of mind which seemed to be master of everything.
• He was a fine old veteran, and very intelligent, for he explained to us the nature of the works with great perspicuity.
• It took no great perspicuity on his part to see that.
• Perspicuity, therefore, requires not only that the ideas should be distinctly formed, but that they should be expressed by words distinctly and exclusively appropriate to them.
• They are some of them uncommon, but such as the Reader must assent to, when he sees them explained with that Elegance and Perspicuity in which they are delivered.
• If Clearness and Perspicuity were only to be consulted, the Poet would have nothing else to do but to cloath his Thoughts in the most plain and natural Expressions.
• In these Authors the Affectation of Greatness often hurts the Perspicuity of the Stile, as in many others the Endeavour after Perspicuity prejudices its Greatness.
• Perspicuity consists in freedom from obscurity or ambiguity.
• Perspicuity, being the most important property of language, and an exemption from the most embarrassing defects, seems even to rise to a degree of positive beauty.
• Occasionally the exuberance of his genius leads him into the error of crowding together metaphors to the detriment of perspicuity.
• He had forced himself into practice, in opposition to the attorneys, by industry and perspicuity.
• After more than twenty-two centuries it still survives, a model of accuracy, perspicuity, and a standard of exact demonstration.
• They may be read as a sample of the breadth and perspicuity of his critical perceptions.
• Johnson laid down the law with pungent perspicuity, and Mr.
• They are employed upon grammatical and settled languages, whose construction contributes so much to perspicuity, that Homer has fewer passages unintelligible than Chaucer.
• They spoke with remarkable simplicity, perspicuity and accuracy of English pronunciation.
• Like many men of great intelligence, his perspicuity was not spontaneous, as it did not at once penetrate to the heart of things.
• With eminent modesty and moderation his sentences were wrought, but with a perspicuity and clearness which no one could mistake.
• A few examples may, however, be quoted in illustration of the delicacy of the observations and of the perspicuity employed in interpreting the facts.
• Time showed that he granted a perspicuity and energy to the members of his council which Iyeyasu alone possessed.
• The exposition and memorial were subjected to the examination of the ablest civilians in England, who refuted every article of the charge with equal precision and perspicuity.
• As a poet, Pringle is chiefly remarkable for elegance of versification, perspicuity of sentiment, and deep and generous feeling.
• Most men are so made that they have a high opinion of their own perspicuity, but a very unfavourable one generally of that of other men.
• But while thus providing more especially for the wants of the classical student, he has not been unmindful of the neatness and perspicuity required to satisfy the English reader.
• He wrote with more perspicuity and strength in prose, and he seems to have understood, as well as any man, the civil constitution of the kingdom, which indeed was his chief study.
• His prose-stile is as perfect in its kind as his poetic, and has all the beauties proper for it, joined to an uncommon force and perspicuity.
• It is not like other murders, neither can it be proved with equal perspicuity.
• Delsarte with a care and perspicuity which make his labors on this subject entirely new, and for which I know no equivalent anywhere.
• My contributions to the press never hindered my work as a minister, for writing for the press promotes perspicuity in preparing for the pulpit.
• It may be observed, that very polished languages, and such as are praised for their superior clearness and perspicuity, are generally deficient in strength.
• Sometimes perspicuity demands that the ordinary principles of Sequence be abandoned altogether.
• His mind felt none of the imbecility of age, and to the last retained its perspicuity and power.
• She could enter into the generous aspirations of a Savonarola, and the selfish desires of a Grandcourt, with equal perspicuity.

Similar words containing PERSPICU without suffix ity

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