INCOLUMITY

Daily Word Quiz
 
CONSPUTE
a) to defile, to pollute, to befoul
b) to dream
c) to spit upon in contempt; to despise
d) to make like, to liken
 
Answer below.
 
Today's Featured Word
INCOLUMITY
also INCOLUMITE
 
NOUN
safety, soundness, freedom from danger ...1533 obs.
 
ETYMOLOGY
from Old French incolumite from Latin incolumitas safety, soundness,
from incolumis safe, sound
 
FIRST DOCUMENTED USE
1533 - see EXAMPLE below
 
EXAMPLE
"...not for the incolumite and preseruation of one cyte or of one nation,
but for the helthe and saluation of the hole worlde"
From: A Playne and Godly Exposytion or Declaration
of the Commune Crede
By: Desiderius Erasmus, 1533

 
Daily Word Quiz Answer
 
CONSPUTE
​(c) to spit upon in contempt; to despise ...1526 obs. rare