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The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology | 1996 | | Â© The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology 1996, originally published by Oxford University Press 1996. (Hide copyright information) Copyright

alacrity XV. — L. alacritās, f. alacer, alacr- brisk; see AMBLE, -ITY.

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