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noun

Rotundity n.

The state or quality of being rotund; roundness; sphericity; circularity. "Smite flat the thick rotundity o'the world!"

Hence, completeness; entirety; roundness. "For the more rotundity of the number and grace of the matter, it passeth for a full thousand." "A boldness and rotundity of speech."

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Etymology of 'Rotundity'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Rotundity" Quotes from Famous Books

... for the deft manoeuvring. At any rate, he walked beside his big cousin with the air of a successful aide-de- camp. But Monkey, too, seemed flushed with victory, rolling along—her rotundity ever suggested rolling rather than the taking of actual steps—as if she led ...

— A Prisoner in Fairyland • Algernon Blackwood

... malformation of the external genitalia. A prolonged clitoris, prolapsed ovaries, grossness of figure, and hirsute appearance have been accountable for many supposed instances of hermaphrodites. On the other hand, a cleft scrotum, an ill-developed penis, perhaps hypospadias or epispadias, rotundity of the mammae, and feminine contour have also provoked accounts of similar instances. Some cases have been proved by dissection to have been true hermaphrodites, portions or even entire genitalia of both sexes having ...

— Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine • George M. Gould

... wallaby would have submitted to human solace and ministrations with daintier mien; but the whole household thrilled with excitement. Could the spluttering spark of life be made to glow? That was the all-absorbing topic for days. Gradually some sort of a human rotundity became manifest, and on the occasion of the bath it was more and more apparent that instead of being impenetrably black the skin-tint was a mingling of pale brown and pink; and as regular nourishment began to be effective ...

— Tropic Days • E. J. Banfield

... that I felt a sinking at my heart, a scratchiness in my nose and a wateriness in my eyes. I suffered the pangs of suppressed sympathy. What could a boy of nineteen say or do in order to restore rotundity to a flattened hero? ...

— The Beloved Vagabond • William J. Locke

... and the people are clad in the seasonable costumes of the country. Huge quilted garments are put on one over another until their figures are almost of ball-like rotundity; the hands are drawn up entirely out of sight in the long, loosely flowing sleeves, while the head is half-hidden by being drawn, turtle-like, into their blue-quilted shells. Like the Persians, they ...

— Around the World on a Bicycle Volume II. - From Teheran To Yokohama • Thomas Stevens

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