Now rare. [f. as prec. + -ITY. Cf. med.L. ultimitas.]
1. The final point or ultimate development of an action or thing; the last stage.
1613. Bacon, Lett. to Jas. I., Wks. 1868, XI. x. 369. That those tragical arguments and (as the schoolmen call them) ultimities of persuasions which were used last Parliament should for ever be abolished. Ibid. (1626), Sylva, § 838. The Degrees of Alteration, of one Body into another, from Crudity to Perfect Concoction; which is the ultimity of that Action, or Processe.
a. 1706. Evelyn, Hist. Relig. (1850), I. 77. [The Almighty] knows all that does not actually exist, even the ultimities of what can or may be.
2. An ultimate principle or fact.
1898. Expositor, June, 453. In everything appertaining to origins and causes, to ultimities and universalities.
