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harshness|ˈhɑːʃnɪs|
[f. as prec. + -ness.]
The quality of being harsh; unpleasant roughness, discordance, severity, rigour, etc.: see the adj.
c1375Sc. Leg. Saints, Agnes 122 With harsknes he can hir assalȝe. 1500–20Dunbar Poems xxii. 19 For harsknes of hir carlich throt. 1530Palsgr. Introd. 15 To avoyde all maner harshenesse..whan many consonantes come betwene the vowelles. 1562Turner Herbal ii. 86 Hartis tung..hath a byndyng taste with an harrishnes. 1695Addison tr. Virg. Georg. iv. Wks. 1721 I. 21 Luscious sweets, that..Correct the harshness of the racy juice. a1782Blair Lect. xviii. 18 Harshness arises from unusual words; from forced inversions..and too much neglect of smoothness and ease. 1847Tennyson Princ. ii. 289 My needful seeming harshness, pardon. |