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Definition of modicity
: moderateness found compensation for the darkness of her frontage in the modicity of her rent — Henry James †1916
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Origin and Etymology of modicity
French modicité, from Late Latin modicitat-, modicitas, from Latin modicus moderate + -itat-, -itas -ity
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