clarity (klariti)

[ ne ; splendor. [Obsolete or archaic.] There cam doun a Sterre, and gaf Lighte and served him with claretee. Mandeville, Travels, p. 86. There is a story told of a very religious person, whose spirit in the ecstasy of devotion was transported to the clarity of a vision. Jer. Taylor , Works (ed. 1835), I. 62. Floods in whose more than crystal clarity Innumerable virgin graces grow. J. Beaumont, Psyche, xxi. 44. They were the ferment of the heated fancy, and, though murky and unsettled, to be followed by clarity , sweetne , and strength. Stedman, Vict. Poets, p. 392. clarkt, n. An obsolete spelling of clerk , still used as a proper name, Clark , Clarke .