Definitions
a rate that is rapid
Word origin
From Old French celeritee (compare French célérité), from Latin celeritas, from celer (“fast, swift”).
Used in a sentence
“O most kind maid, / It was the swift celerity of his death, / Which I did think with slower foot came on, / That brain'd my purpose.”
“The phantoms, for so they then seemed, were flitting on the other side of the deck, and, with a noiseless celerity, were casting loose the tackles and bands of the boat which swung there.”
“The celerity of executions is a generally neglected issue in the empirical literature on deterrence and capital punishment.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Great speed”8 letters
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