Celerity Definition

sə-lĕrĭ-tē
noun
Swiftness in acting or moving; speed.
Webster's New World
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Origin of Celerity

  • From Old French celeritee (compare French célérité), from Latin celeritas, from celer (“fast, swift”).

    From Wiktionary

  • French célérité from Old French from Latin celeritās from celer swift

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Celerity Sentence Examples

  • His concentration was effected with his usual sureness and celerity, but whilst the French moved on Wittenberg, Blucher was marching to his right, indifferent to his communications as all Prussia lay behind him.

  • Moreover, long habituated to snail-like modes of travel, the people did not rapidly appreciate the celerity of the locomotive.

  • We couldn't understand why they had n't proffered huge wads of cash with due celerity.

  • His orders were at once issued and complied with with such celerity that by the 31st he stood prepared to advance with the corps of Soult, Ney, Davout and Augereau, the Guard and the reserve cavalry (80,000 men on a front of 60 m.) from Myszienec through Wollenberg to Gilgenberg; whilst Lannes on his right towards Ostrolenka and Lefebvre (X.) at Thorn covered his outer flanks.

  • The celerity and skill with which Cranmer did the work intrusted to him must have fully satisfied his master.

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