Requiring vs Ponderosity - What's the difference?
requiring | ponderosity |
(archaic) requirement
*
The quality of requiring extensive thought.
* {{quote-book, 1858, author=, chapter=IV
, passage=The ponderosity of her qualifications for nobility was sometimes too much even for her mother, and her devotion to peerage was such, that she would certainly have declined a seat in heaven if it offered her without the promise that it should be in the upper house}}
Weight; heaviness.
* Sir Thomas Browne
As nouns the difference between requiring and ponderosity
is that requiring is requirement while ponderosity is the quality of requiring extensive thought.As a verb requiring
is present participle of require.requiring
English
Verb
(head)Noun
(en noun)- In the days of my sorrow for sin, I fully believed there was in God alone, a rest for the righteous; and no true rest in any other way, than through obedience to his holy requirings .
ponderosity
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Noun
- Again, whereas men affirm they perceive an addition of ponderosity in dead bodies, comparing them usually unto blocks and stones, whensoever they lift or carry them; this accessional preponderancy is rather in appearance than reality.
