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  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Rusticity  \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. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  rusticity 
  n  :  the  quality  of  being  rustic  or  gauche  [syn:  {gaucherie}] 




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