About The Word Rusticity
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Rusticity
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What's The Definition Of Rusticity?
[n] the quality of being rustic or gauche
Synonyms | Synonyms for Rusticity: gaucherie Related Terms | Find terms related to Rusticity: See Also | awkwardness | clumsiness | gracelessness | stiffness Rusticity In Webster's Dictionary \Rus*tic"ity\, n. [L. rusticitas: cf. F.
rusticit['e].]
The quality or state of being rustic; rustic manners;
rudeness; simplicity; artlessness.
The sweetness and rusticity of a pastoral can not be so
well expressed in any other tongue as in the Greek,
when rightly mixed and qualified with the Doric
dialect. --Addison.
The Saxons were refined from their rusticity. --Sir W.
Scott.
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