Sc. and north. Eng. [irreg. f. CLEVER, after comicality, etc.] Cleverness.
1828. Blackw. Mag., XXIV. 910. I answered with almost as much cleverality as himself.
1832. C. Brontë, in Mrs. Gaskell, Life, 76. Johnson hadn’t a spark of cleverality in him.
1833. Moir, Mansie Wauch, xi. (1849), 71. The honest man whose cleverality had diverted us.
