[ad. F. flexuosité, ad. L. flexuōsitāt-em, n. of state f. flexuōsus: see prec. and -ITY.] The quality or condition of being flexuous; an instance of this; a winding.
1611. Cotgr., Flexuosite, flexuositie; a most crooked or manifold turning.
1737. Ozell, Rabelais, III. iv. (1807), II. 261. That Place, where Nature hath prepared for it very fit Vessels and Receptacles through which descending to the Genitories by long Ambages, Circuits and Flexuosities, it receiveth a competent Form, and Rooms apt enough both in the Man and Woman for the future Conservation and perpetuating of human Kind.
1830. R. Knox, Béclard’s Anat., 168. The flexuosity consists in a course alternately undulated above and below a straight line.
1853. J. Phillips, Rivers Yorksh., ix. 243. If we regard as originally British ways, those in which the main feature is a clinging to high ridges of open ground, thickly set with tumuli and earthworks, and which exhibit a negligent flexuosity, such as suits the notion of a customary track, rather than a well-planned and firmly executed road,—the old Wold road from York to Bridlington may claim to be such.
