Word Of The Night: Honorificabilitudinitatibus

Noun
honorificabilitudinitatibus (uncountable)
1. The state of being able to achieve honours.

Usage:

This word is an example of a hapax legomenon, occurring in Shakespeare's works only in Act V, Scene I of Love's Labour's Lost (and only very rarely in the works of other authors).


William Shakespeare, Love's Labour's Lost, act V, scene i
O, they have lived long on the alms-basket of words.
I marvel thy master hath not eaten thee for a word;
for thou art not so long by the head as
honorificabilitudinitatibus: thou art easier
swallowed than a flap-dragon.