gravity (n.) Old form(s): Grauitie, grauities , grauity
respectability, authority, dignified position
2H4 I.ii.163[Lord Chief Justice to Falstaff] There is not a white hair in your face but should have his effect of gravity
CE II.ii.177[Adriana to Antipholus of Syracuse] How ill agrees it with your gravity / To counterfeit thus grossly with your slave
H8 III.i.73[Queen Katherine to and of Campeius and Wolsey] such men of gravity and learning
JC II.i.149[Metellus to all, of Cicero] Our youths and wildness shall no whit appear, / But all be buried in his gravity
LLL V.ii.74[Rosaline to Princess] The blood of youth burns not with such excess / As gravity's revolt to wantonness
LLL V.ii.763[Berowne to ladies, of their conduct ] if [we] ... / Have misbecomed our oaths and gravities
MM II.iv.9[Angelo alone] my gravity, / Wherein ... I take pride
Sonn.49.8[] love converted from the thing it was / Shall reasons find of settled gravity
TN III.iv.116[Sir Toby to Malvolio] 'tis not for gravity to play at cherry-pit with Satan
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