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noun

Lubricity n.

Smoothness; freedom from friction; also, property which diminishes friction; as, the lubricity of oil.

Slipperiness; instability; as, the lubricity of fortune.

Lasciviousness; propensity to lewdness; lewdness; lechery; incontinency. "As if wantonness and lubricity were essential to that poem."

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Etymology of 'Lubricity'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Lubricity" Quotes from Famous Books

... cabbage is reprehensible with roast beef, laudable with bacon; why the haunch of mutton seeks the alliance of currant jelly, the shoulder civilly declineth it; why a loin of veal (a pretty problem), being itself unctuous, seeketh the adventitious lubricity of melted butter; and why the same part in pork, not more oleaginous, abhorreth it; why the French bean sympathizes with the flesh of deer; why salt fish points to parsnip, brawn makes a dead set at mustard; why cats prefer valerian to heartsease, old ladies vice ...

— Charles Lamb • Walter Jerrold

... No, we are not utterly lost to the fine sense of propriety of this chaste and demure age. But no matter how etiolated and sickly the thought, it regains its colour and health when it breathes the literary air. Prudery can not but relish the tang of lubricity when flavoured with the classical. Moreover, if Socrates and Montaigne speak freely of these midnight matters, why not Khalid, if he has anything new to say, any good advice to offer. But how good and how new are his views let the ...

— The Book of Khalid • Ameen Rihani

... in order that he might properly adjust his scale of counsel, of warning, of reproof, and of penance. Some, therefore, in pure simplicity and conscientious discharge of the duty they had assumed, but others, from lubricity of morals or the irritations of curiosity, pushed their investigations into unhallowed paths of speculation. They held aloft a torch for exploring guilty recesses-of human life, which it is far better for us all to leave in their original darkness. Crimes ...

— Theological Essays and Other Papers v1 • Thomas de Quincey

... the first of these factors that produced the lubricity that defiles and the lack of moral earnestness that weakens such a large proportion of the literature of this age. It is not necessary to illustrate this point in any detail.[50] The record of Rome, alike in home and foreign politics, during the hundred and twenty years preceding the foundation ...

— Post-Augustan Poetry - From Seneca to Juvenal • H.E. Butler

Words linked to "Lubricity" : erotism, carnality, sexiness, amorousness, pruriency, eroticism, prurience, amativeness