Both Uses of
celerity
in
Measure for Measure
- This is his pardon, purchas'd by such sin, For which the pardoner himself is in: Hence hath offence his quick celerity, When it is borne in high authority: When vice makes mercy, mercy's so extended That for the fault's love is the offender friended.†
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- O most kind maid, It was the swift celerity of his death, Which I did think with slower foot came on, That brain'd my purpose.†
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Definition:
a rate that is rapid