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[ UK /sæɡˈæsɪti/ ]
NOUN
  1. the mental ability to understand and discriminate between relations
  2. the trait of forming opinions by distinguishing and evaluating

How To Use sagacity In A Sentence

  • Marcus Antonius, commonly called Mark Antony, was a celebrated Roman general and successful politician, who was born in 83 B.C. His grandfather, on his mother's side, was L. Julius C.esar, and it is thought that to Mark's sagacity in his selection of a mother, much of his subsequent success was due. Remarks
  • While she brings experience and sagacity, such a slim volume on such large topic demands a few leaps of faith, notwithstanding the appended 56 pages of interesting notes and comments.
  • Miss Margland, extremely piqued, vented her spleen in oblique sarcasms, and sought to heal her offended pride by appeals for justice to her sagacity and foresight in the whole business. Camilla: or, A Picture of Youth
  • Criscantoi Vaz was a sturdy-spirited man of much presence, of great sagacity, of considerable quiet strength. KING OF DREAMS
  • Charity knows no adversary; sagacity breeds no worry.
  • Is it not singular that these animals, not usually wanting in sagacity or courage, should when threatened by fire so quietly submit to their fate without making a single effort to escape? Life in the Rocky Mountains
  • At the same time this coarseness of taste did not blunt his intellectual sagacity.
  • And _All elephants are sagacious_ does not limit sagacity to elephants: regarding 'sagacious' as possibly denoting many animals of many species that exhibit the quality, this proposition is equivalent to '_All elephants are_ some _sagacious animals_.' Logic Deductive and Inductive
  • We have sometimes questioned the Bush administration's political sagacity, but I think it's safe to assume that they are nowhere near that dumb.
  • She was the first Kerne to be wed to royalty, and she had brought with her the sense and sagacity seemingly born to all of that fleetstate.
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