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usually uncountable, plural mordacities
The quality of being mordacious; biting severity, or sarcastic quality. quotations examples
such things as have very thin parts , yet notwithstanding are without all acrirumony or mordacity
1631, Francis [Bacon], “(please specify |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], 3rd edition, London: […] William Rawley; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […]