quality

degree

noun. recognition of achievement; rank or grade of position

degrees

noun. recognition of achievement; rank or grade of position

Word Origin & History

c.1300, "temperament, character, disposition," from Old French qualite "quality, nature, characteristic" (12c., Modern French qualité), from Latin qualitatem (nominative qualitas) "a quality, property; nature, state, condition" (said [Tucker, etc.] to have been coined by Cicero to translate Greek poiotes), from qualis "what kind of a," from PIE pronomial base *kwo- (see who).

Meaning "degree of goodness" is late 14c. Meaning "social rank, position" is c.1400. Noun phrase quality time first recorded 1977. Quality of life is from 1943. Quality control first attested 1935.

Example Sentences for quality

Their names often signified some quality of a horse; as Leucippus, a white horse, &c.

Having never tasted it, I can bear no testimony to its quality.

My conception of the love of God lacked just that quality—intensity.

This says nothing of the quality of my work, which, humble as it may be, is simply the best I know how to do.

The quality of sincerity in Dick's voice was more convincing than any vow might have been.

How can the quality of eggs be determined: (a) in the market?

How may the kind and quality of flour be judged in purchasing it?

So it is with war, and the quality of both is best discovered by sipping.

Power of sustentation; the quality of sustaining a weight in the air.

It is the deficiency, and not the excess of this quality, that is to be feared.

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