English
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Etymology
honorificabilitudinitas (Mussatus, c1300 in Du Cange), an extension of honorificabilitudo, honourableness (in a charter of 1187, Du Cange), itself from honorificabilis honourable.
Noun
honorificabilitudinitatibus
- The state of being able to achieve honours
Usage notes
This word is an example of a hapax legomenon, occurring in Shakespeare's works only in Act V, Scene I of Love's Labour's Lost (and only very rarely in the works of other authors).
Quotations
Shakespeare:
:O, they have lived long on the alms-basket of words.
:I marvel thy master hath not eaten thee for a word;
:for thou art not so long by the head as
:honorificabilitudinitatibus: thou art easier
:swallowed than a flap-dragon.
:�Love's Labour's Lost: V, i
Category:Words from Shakespeare
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