moity

[ moi-tee ]

adjective

, moit·i·er, moit·i·est.

1. full of moits.

Word History and Origins

Origin of moity¹

First recorded in 1875–80; moit + -y ¹

Example Sentences

I hav no doubt but that the human hart kontains all the pure attributes that the angels possess, but no single human hart kontains even a moity ov them.

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The charitable Welshman divided with the bookseller the salary given to Leonard, and left a quarter of his moity in advance.

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Let it be indelibly impressed on the mind, however, that this amount, large as it is, is only a moity of the sum that it has cost to maintain slavery in North Carolina.

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There was an immense crowd in the infield, and the fence from the head of the stretch to the clubhouse turn was lined with a dense mass of humanity, each moity of which was struggling to either gain or maintain his position.

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Now therefore, to the end, that the Looser may have his benefit by it, as well as the Gainer, it would not be amiss, that the condition were made thus, that the latter should grant the moity of his gain to the Proposer; that thereby he might be enabled to bring to light both those, and some other useful inventions, for the Service of Mankind.

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