perpensity

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• Perpensity — Per*pen si*ty, n. Perpension. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• perpensity — 1704, from L. perpensus “deliberate,” pp. of perpendere (see PERPENDICULAR (Cf. perpendicular)) + ITY (Cf. ity) …   Etymology dictionary