callidity

English

Etymology

Latin calliditas.

Noun

callidity (countable and uncountable, plural callidities)

(obsolete) craftiness, cunning
- 1752, Christopher Smart, Poems on Several Occasions, The Hop Garden:
  Her eagle-ey'd callidity, deceit,
  And fairy fiction rais'd above her sex

References

“callidity”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

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