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rusticity

Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

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.

Source : WordNet®

rusticity
     n : the quality of being rustic or gauche [syn: {gaucherie}]
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