[ad. F. limpidité or late L. limpiditāt-em, f. limpidus LIMPID.] Clearness, transparence, with reference to both material and immaterial things.
1656. in Blount, Glossogr.
1664. H. More, Myst. Iniq., 245. Rivers what they signifie … in respect of their limpidity.
1758. Reid, trans. Macquer’s Chym., I. 133. We are surprised to observe the solution of copper … retain its limpidity.
1870. Lowell, Among My Books, Ser. I. (1873), 178. The limpidity of its expression allows us to measure it at a glance.
1886. Ruskin, Præterita, I. 294. Waters, of a perfect limpidity.
