WORD OF THE DAY: NIGREDITY

NIGREDITY
 
NOUN
blackness ...1547 obs. rare

ETYMOLOGY
from Latin nigrēdō (blackness ) from nigr-, niger (black) + -ēdō, (suffix forming nouns) + -ity

FIRST DOCUMENTED USE
1547 - see EXAMPLE below
 
EXAMPLE
"...y it is impossible to make whole them the which be sicke in whose vrines any nygredytie or blacknes hathe dominion..."
From: The Breuiary of Helthe
- Andrew Borde