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Oscitancy   Listen
noun
Oscitancy  n.  
1.
The act of gaping or yawning.
2.
Drowsiness; dullness; sluggishness. "It might proceed from the oscitancy of transcribers."





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"Oscitancy" Quotes from Famous Books



... dreams it. It is not an ambition, that can be gratified by the distribution of places and pensions. This is a passion, that can only dwell in the weakest and most imbecil minds. Its necessary concomitants, are official inattention and oscitancy. No. The ambition of this hero is a generous thirst of fame, and a desire of possessing the opportunity of conferring the most lasting benefits upon his country. It is an instinct, that carries a man forward into the field of fitness, and ...
— Four Early Pamphlets • William Godwin
... substantial agreement, and general conformity in respect of details, among the synoptical witnesses, in their leading external outlines, we are yet constrained to withhold our unqualified acceptance of any theory of Inspiration which should claim for these compilers exemption from the oscitancy, and generally from the infirmities of humanity." ... This sounds fine, you know; and is thought an ingenious way of wrapping up the charge which the Reverend preacher brings against the Evangelists;—of having, in ...
— Inspiration and Interpretation - Seven Sermons Preached Before the University of Oxford • John Burgon


Words linked to "Oscitancy" :   oscitant, oscitance, inborn reflex, reflex action, yawning, drowsiness, sleepiness, instinctive reflex, pandiculation, reflex, physiological reaction, obtuseness


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