The corpus record — Latin

deformitas

deformitas · f

deformity, ugliness

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Where it lives

Agesilaus 1 · 7.2/10k
De Constantia 2 · 3.78/10k
Pro M. Scauro 1 · 3.37/10k
De Ira 5 · 2.24/10k
Ab Urbe Condita, books 1-2 - 2 3 · 1.68/10k
Divus Julius 1 · 1.03/10k
De Bello Alexandrino 1 · 0.96/10k
Ab urbe condita, books 26-30 - 29 1 · 0.81/10k
Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 31-32 - 31 1 · 0.79/10k
Ab urbe condita, books 26-30 - 30 1 · 0.74/10k
Ad Nationes 1 · 0.67/10k
De Oratore 4 · 0.66/10k

Densest 12 of 36 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

dēformĭtas — Lewis & Short

dēformĭtas, ātis, f.deformis, no. I.,

I deformity, ugliness (good prose).

I Lit. (physically): quae si in deformitate corporis habet aliquid offensionis, quanta illa depravatio et foeditas animi debet videri? Cic. Off. 3, 29, 105; id. de Or. 2, 59, 239; cf. of mutilation, Amm. 14, 7, 16: in tanta deformitate, hideousness, Liv. 2, 23; Quint. 2, 13, 12 al.: aedificiorum, Suet. Ner. 38.—

II Trop. (morally), baseness, vileness, deformity of character: an corporis pravitates habebunt aliquid offensionis, animi deformitas non habebit? Cic. Leg. 1, 19, 51; id. Att. 9, 10, 2; id. de Or. 1, 34, 156; Sen. Ben. 1, 10, 2; Quint. 6, 1, 12; 8, 3, 48.—Plur.: verba meretricum vitia atque deformitates significantia, Gell. 3, 3, 6 et saep.—

B An uncouth style: rusticitas et rigor et deformitas adferunt frigus, Quint. 6, 1, 37.

In the wild

deformitas Seneca, De Ira 2.36.2
deformitatem Columella, Res Rustica, Books I-IX 6.35.2
deformitas Celsus, De Medicina 7.9
deformitates Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 3.3.6
deformitatemque Livy, Ab Urbe Condita, books 1-2 - 2 p27
deformitas Cicero, Tusculanae Disputationes 4.28

6 of 78 attestations shown.

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