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The meaning of CELERITY is rapidity of motion or action. How to use celerity in a sentence. Did you know?
Having collected all their forces, with loud whooping and encouraging shouts to one another, they led towards us with great celerity. He poured his own drink and shoved the bottles toward his friend, who helped himself with skilful celerity.
There were two private nurses to wait on me, and they moved with the celerity of antelopes in response to my slightest bidding. (Definition of celerity from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
While it looks a lot like celery, celerity means something that vegetables are not — fast moving. Gossip often travels with celerity, as do children trying to get to a big plate of cookies. When you see the word celerity, think accelerate, like a car when you step on the gas.
Celerity definition: swiftness; speed. . See examples of CELERITY used in a sentence.
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The earliest known use of the noun celerity is in the Middle English period (1150—1500). OED's earliest evidence for celerity is from 1483, in the writing of King Richard III. celerity is a borrowing from French.
