Honorificabilitidinitatibus

Longest word in the English language.

A variant of this interesting word occurs in a charter dated A.D. 1187. It is used also in the Complaynt of Scotland, I548–49, and another form of it, “Honorificabilitidinitatibus,” is found in Love’s Labour Lost, which we know to have been acted at Christmas, I597. - Frank Burgoyne, 1904. In the pamphlet Lenten Stuffe printed about 1599, it is used by Nashe, who writes: ‘Physitions deafen our eares with the Honorificabilitudinitatibus of their heavenly Panachæa.’” Donnelly - The Great Cryptogram. Vol I. pp. 281–283, 1888.

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