Obs. [f. as prec. + -ITY.]
1. Leafiness.
1656. Blount, Glossogr., Frondosity, leaviness, or aptness to bear leaves.
1772. Nugent, trans. Hist. Friar Gerund, I. 330. This deity offered himself to their worship in the figure of a naked youth, crowned with myrtle, adorned with wings, and in the frondosity of a pleasant meadow.
2. (See quot.)
1658. Phillips, Frondosity, a flourishing with green leaves, being just under the architrave.
