sequacity
(sɪˈkwæsɪtɪ)
[ad. late L. sequācitās, f. sequāc- (see sequacious) + -ity.]
† 1. Ductility, pliability (of matter). Obs. rare—1.
| 1626 Bacon Sylva §900 All Sperme, all Menstruous Substance,..haue euermore a Closenesse, Lentour and Sequacity. |
2. Disposition or readiness to follow; lack of independence in action, judgement, thought, etc.
| 1654 Whitlock Zootomia 207 But this Liberty of Judgement..seemes allmost lost, either in Lazy, or blinde Sequacity of other mens Votes. 1838 Sir W. Hamilton Logic App. (1866) II. 264 Another example of the passive sequacity of the logicians. They follow obediently in the footsteps of their great master. 1850 Grote Greece ii. lxii. VIII. 125 At best a tame and dumb sequacity to leaders whom they neither chose nor controled. 1876 Blackmore Cripps xxix, Against each good old-fashioned smoothness, and fine-fed sequacity, a rapid stir was now arising. |