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Honorificabilitudinitatibus
Honorificabilitudinitatibus is the dative and ablative plural of the medieval Latin word ''honorificabilitudinitas'', which can be translated as "the state of being able to achieve honours". It is mentioned by the character Costard in Act V, Scene I of William Shakespeare's ''Love's Labour's Lost''.
As it appears only once in Shakespeare's works, it is a hapax legomenon in the Shakespeare canon. It is also the longest word in the English language featuring only alternating consonants and vowels.〔http://www.innocentenglish.com/cool-interesting-and-strange-facts/cool-strange-and-interesting-facts-page-3-3.html|See fact #99〕
==Use in ''Love's Labour's Lost''==
The word is spoken by the comic rustic Costard in Act V, Scene 1 of the play. It is used after an absurdly pretentious dialogue between the pedantic schoolmaster Holofernes and his friend Sir Nathaniel. The two pedants converse in a mixture of Latin and florid English. When Moth, a witty young servant, enters, Costard says of the pedants:
Flap-dragon was a game which involved trying to eat hot raisins from a bowl of burning brandy.
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