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disˈtastefulness
[f. as prec. + -ness.]
1. The quality of being distasteful; unpleasantness to the taste or mind, offensiveness.
1654W. Mountague Devout Ess. ii. x. §2 (R.) The allaying and qualifying much of the bitter and distastefulness of our physick. 1654Whitlock Zootomia 343 To leave the Distastfulnesse of Comparison. 1821Lockhart Valerius III. xii. 296 There was something of distastefulness in the mirthful strains. 1840Mill Diss. & Disc. (1859) I. 99 Speculation..has been falling more and more into distastefulness and disrepute among the educated classes.
†2. Dislike, aversion, repugnance. Obs.
a1625Earl of Bristol Let. to Jas. I in Cabala Supp. 121 (T.) Out of a distastefulness of the former answer given. 1642Rogers Naaman 466 It is a distastfulnesse of heart. |