Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for U-TIL'I-TY
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U-TIL'I-TY, n. [Fr. utilité; L. utilitas, from utor, to use.]
Usefulness; production of good; profitableness to some valuable end; as, the utility of manures upon land; the utility of the sciences; the utility of medicines.
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