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/rˈiəlti/ /rˈɪlɪtˌi/ /rˈilti/ Listen

noun

Realty n.

Royalty. (Obs.)

Loyalty; faithfulness. (R.)

Realty n.

Reality. (Obs.)

(Law)

(a)

Immobility, or the fixed, permanent nature of real property; as, chattels which savor of the realty; so written in legal language for reality.

(b)

Real estate; a piece of real property.

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Etymology of 'Realty'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Realty" Quotes from Famous Books

... wrong and foolish to take away in whole or in part the accumulations of the commercial class. With us the only wealthy citizens are commercial people, and those who have acquired wealth through them, for with us here, at this time, the wealthy owners of realty are commercial men who have put their surplus money into land. Oh, yes: control them; but it's not the business men of the world who need the most ...

— A Strange Discovery • Charles Romyn Dake

... came to you. Upon the day of his death, in the year 1777, you prepared his will, which you have since found to be of no effect, except as regards his personal estate, and about one-eighth part of the realty. Of the bulk of the land, including Scargate Hall, he could not dispose, for the simple reason that it had been strictly entailed by a deed executed by my grandfather and his wife in 1751. Under that entail I take in fee, for it could not have been barred without me; and I never concurred ...

— Mary Anerley • R. D. Blackmore

... with longer stockings have not yet got to this pitch of overlapping. But everywhere in Europe what is happening is a great transformation of the property owner into a rentier, and the passing of realty into the ...

— What is Coming? • H. G. Wells

... full of small additional seasonings of incident and phrase to the solid feast of fairy working which it provides. Gracieuse's "collation," with its more than twenty pots of different jams, has a delightful realty (which is slightly different from reality) even for those to whom jam has never been the very highest of human delights, because they prefer savouries to sweets. Even the abominable duchess seems to have had a splendid cellar, before she took to filling the casks with mere gold ...

— A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 - From the Beginning to 1800 • George Saintsbury

... and harbors, post offices and federal buildings, pensions and patronage: these are fed out to concave communities as tangible evidence of the benefits of national life. Being concave, they can see the white marble building which rises out of federal funds to raise local realty values and employ local contractors more readily than they can judge the cumulative cost of the pork barrel. It is fair to say that in a large assembly of men, each of whom has practical knowledge only ...

— Public Opinion • Walter Lippmann

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