Celerity

/sɪˈlɛɹɪti/

Synonyms for "celerity" (54 found)

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celerity in executioncelerity of responsegreat celeritymeasure of celerityrapid celerityremarkable celerity

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French

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  • célérité noun (speed of individual waves)

Malay

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  • laju rambat noun (speed of individual waves)

Portuguese

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  • celeridade noun (speed of individual waves)

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The exquisite feminine beauty of her countenance, now shaded only by a profusion of sunny tresses; the sylph-like form, disencumbered of her heavy riding-skirt and mantled in azure silk; the grace of her manner and of her smile, cleared, with a celerity which surprised the Master himself, all the gloomy and unfavourable thoughts which had for some time overclouded his fancy.

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O most kind maid, / It was the swift celerity of his death, / Which I did think with slower foot came on, / That brain'd my purpose.

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...when a new medium for attraction was started in the bazaar to which we have alluded, and her letter was dispatched with all possible celerity, insisting that her daughters "should work day and night"—so ran the document—for three weeks,...

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The phantoms, for so they then seemed, were flitting on the other side of the deck, and, with a noiseless celerity, were casting loose the tackles and bands of the boat which swung there.

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