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rusticity |
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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