Obs. rare. [f. next + -ITY.] Superciliousness.
1606. Birnie, Kirk-Buriall (1833), 13. As if such superciliosity could sweeten the bitter swarfes of their sowre death.
1637. Bastwick, Litany, I. 6. The Statelinesse, severity, pride of their carriage and superciliosity.
1652. Urquhart, Jewel, 58. They, with a Pharisaical Superciliosity, would always rebuke the … Sectaries as Publicans and sinners.
