Scholarly reactions to the Latinity of the Whitby text are symptomatic of this state of affairs. |
He had dared to differ with Fraser, a hot pedant, on some piece of Latinity. |
The bishop was compelled by pontifical authority to desist from this wicked labor, and Latinity did not recover until the Renaissance. |
The Latinity has a strong African colouring, and is crammed with obsolete words, agreeably to the taste of the time. |
This suggests, among other things, that the global dominance of modern English does not somehow repeat an early-modern global Latinity. |
But his Latinity did not soften his manners, and he was thought cruel even in that age. |