complicacy
Americannoun
plural
complicacies-
the state of being complicated; complicatedness.
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a complication.
the numerous complicacies of travel in such a remote country.
noun
Etymology
Origin of complicacy
1820–30; complic(ate) + -acy, modeled on such pairs as confederacy, confederate
Example Sentences
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I'm not an in-season moves coach, mainly because of the complicacy of my defense; it takes a while to adjust to it.
From Seattle Times
There is a method of compensation by which the inertia of a cell can almost entirely be overcome, but it would add greatly to the complicacy of the receiving apparatus.
From Project Gutenberg
Of one sore I an hundred make by adding but one more L. In a former publication I have shown that an antagonism had developed between Shakespeare and Chapman as early as the year 1594, and in a more recent one have shown Matthew Roydon's complicacy with Chapman in his hostility to Shakespeare, and also Shakespeare's cognizance of it.
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The venality of the conquerorʼs administration, the judicial complicacy, want of public works, weak imperial government, and arrogant local rule tended to dismember the once powerful Spanish Empire.
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Now as heretofore it will behove the Editor of these pages, were it never so unsuccessfully, to do his endeavour. 77Among the earliest tools of any complicacy which a man, especially a man of letters, gets to handle, are his Class-books.
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