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nigritude|ˈnɪgrɪtjuːd|
[ad. L. nigritūd-o, f. nigr-, niger black: see -tude.]
Blackness.
1651Culpepper Astrol. Judgem. Dis. (1658) 194 Their colour is pale, shaddowed with a little nigritude or darknesse. 1657Tomlinson Renou's Disp. 211 Nigritude deturpates [the teeth]. 1822Lamb Elia Ser. i. Praise Chimney-Sweepers, I like to meet a sweep..—one of those tender novices blooming through their first nigritude. a1849H. Coleridge Ess. (1851) II. 33 Reflections on the rear-ward nigritude of the kettle. 1889Q. Rev. CLXVIII. 372 Our aged friends can well remember when the smoke of London was not equal to one-tenth of last year's nigritude.
b. A black thing or reputation.
1869Echo 2 Sept., The subtle nigritudes born of the household fires. Upon our dwellings these nigritudes fall [etc.]. 1878Pall Mall G. 6 Aug. 9 [Whitewashing], to be done effectively, must be attempted on such unmistakable nigritudes as Judas Iscariot or Judge Jeffries.
Hence nigriˈtudinous a., black.
1849J. G. Saxe Poems, Devil of Names 106 To whiten his nigritudinous legs. |