claritude

From Latin claritudo, from clarus (“clear”).

claritude (usually uncountable, plural claritudes)

1. (obsolete) Clarity or splendour.
   • 1513, Henry Bradshaw, Lyfe of Saynt Radegunde‎^[1]:

     O lylly-whyte floure shenyng with claritude

   • 1710, John Gadbury, Nauticum Astrologicum: Or, The Astrological Seaman‎^[2]:

     and it is no uncommon thing, for a Glorious Morning Sun, that continues his Brightneſs and Claritude the whole day, to ſet Cloudy in the Evening.

• “claritude”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• curtailed