gravity (n.)
- acuteness
- adduction
- affinity
- allurement
- attraction
- attractiveness
- avoirdupois
- beef
- bleakness
- buckram
- capillarity
- ceremonial
- ceremoniousness
- ceremony
- courtliness
- darkness
- decorousness
- demureness
- dignity
- drag
- draw
- dreariness
- earnestness
- elevation
- exigency
- fatness
- form
- formality
- formalization
- geotropism
- gloom
- gloominess
- grandeur
- gravitation
- graviton
- grimness
- heaviness
- heft
- heftiness
- immediacy
- importance
- loftiness
- lordliness
- magnetism
- magnitude
- majesty
- mass
- moderation
- momentousness
- net
- nobility
- overweight
- pomp
- pomposity
- ponderosity
- ponderousness
- poundage
- primness
- pull
- reserve
- rigidness
- ritual
- rituality
- sedateness
- seriousness
- severity
- significance
- soberness
- sobersides
- sobriety
- solemnity
- somberness
- staidness
- stateliness
- stiffness
- stylization
- sublimity
- sympathy
- temperance
- thoughtfulness
- tonnage
- traction
- tug
- urgency
- venerability
- weight
- weightiness
- worthiness
We have oftener than once endeavoured to attach some meaning to that aphorism, vulgarly imputed to Shaftesbury, which however we can find nowhere in his works, that "ridicule is the test of truth."
This passion, and the death of a dear friend, would go near to make a man look sad.
'T is not for gravity to play at cherry-pit with Satan.
