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noun

Latitude n.

1.

Extent from side to side, or distance sidewise from a given point or line; breadth; width. "Provided the length do not exceed the latitude above one third part."

2.

Room; space; freedom from confinement or restraint; hence, looseness; laxity; independence. "In human actions there are no degrees and precise natural limits described, but a latitude is indulged."

3.

Extent or breadth of signification, application, etc.; extent of deviation from a standard, as truth, style, etc. "No discreet man will believe Augustine's miracles, in the latitude of monkish relations."

4.

Extent; size; amplitude; scope. "I pretend not to treat of them in their full latitude."

5.

(Geog.) Distance north or south of the equator, measured on a meridian.

6.

(Astron.) The angular distance of a heavenly body from the ecliptic.

Ascending latitude, Circle of latitude, Geographical latitude, etc. See under Ascending. Circle, etc.

High latitude, that part of the earth's surface near either pole, esp. that part within either the arctic or the antarctic circle.

Low latitude, that part of the earth's surface which is near the equator.

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Etymology of 'Latitude'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... seem (to himself) to be conspiring, and he will gain a license to speak his mind without offence. This is the only use to which he puts this mask of madness, as Coleridge has remarked. But why should he instinctively seek to gain more latitude of speech? Because since the marriage of his mother he had suffered from an enforced silence with regard to the proceedings of the Court, as he distinctly tells us in ...

— The Contemporary Review, January 1883 - Vol 43, No. 1 • Various

... responsible thing to be so fascinating. I never felt that responsibleness but once—except when I got married, of course—and that was a good many years ago, when I was going to sea on long v'yages, and was cruising around the East Indies, in the latitude of our ...

— Cape Cod Stories - The Old Home House • Joseph C. Lincoln

... the contrast with a service of fruit upon an extra occasion in her home circle, which cost several golden guineas, and yet was not to be compared with that furnished for the merest trifle by these sable purveyors—so much for the sun rays of the latitude. There was, however, the absence of any beverage stronger than water, not even tea, a name which the humble hostess scarcely comprehended. But a good substitute was readily presented, in the form of strong coffee, without cream ...

— An Historical Account of the Settlements of Scotch Highlanders in America • J. P. MacLean

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— One Wonderful Night - A Romance of New York • Louis Tracy

... a summer morning to find the wind blowing softly through the open ports and the water chiming on the ship's side. After that we lived in a world all our own; ourselves the sum and centre of it; a blue world that slid through degrees of latitude and longitude, but held us, its inhabitants, at ever the same distance from realities. The past was miles away at the end of the white path astern; the future did not yet so much as smudge the forward horizon; we were ...

— The Relief of Mafeking • Filson Young

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