Rusticity \Rus*tic"ity\, n. [L. rusticitas: cf. F.
rusticit['e].]
The quality or state of being rustic; rustic manners;
rudeness; simplicity; artlessness.
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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.
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The Saxons were refined from their rusticity. --Sir W.
Scott.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
rusticity
n : the quality of being rustic or gauche [syn: gaucherie]
WordNet (r) 2.0
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