Word of the Day: EMACITY


ETYMOLOGY
from Latin emacitas, from emacem (fond of buying), from emere (to buy)


EXAMPLE
“…I found, however, that this gentleman was a little inflicted with the disease of emacity, or itch for buying bargains above-mentioned…”

From: Flowers of Literature
Edited by Francis William Blagdon, Francis Prévost, 1806

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