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AGILITY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The gracefulness of a person or animal that is quick and nimble
Synonyms:
agility; legerity; lightness; lightsomeness; nimbleness
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("agility" is a kind of...):
gracefulness (beautiful carriage)
Derivation:
agile (moving quickly and lightly)
Context examples:
One day, in discourse, my master, having heard me mention the nobility of my country, was pleased to make me a compliment which I could not pretend to deserve: that he was sure I must have been born of some noble family, because I far exceeded in shape, colour, and cleanliness, all the Yahoos of his nation, although I seemed to fail in strength and agility, which must be imputed to my different way of living from those other brutes; and besides I was not only endowed with the faculty of speech, but likewise with some rudiments of reason, to a degree that, with all his acquaintance, I passed for a prodigy.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
Whoever performs his part with most agility, and holds out the longest in leaping and creeping, is rewarded with the blue-coloured silk; the red is given to the next, and the green to the third, which they all wear girt twice round about the middle; and you see few great persons about this court who are not adorned with one of these girdles.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
