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rusticity|rʌˈstɪsɪtɪ|
Also 6 rustycyte, 6–7 rusticitie.
[ad. F. rusticité (1460) or L. rusticitas: see rustic a. and -ity.]
1. Lack of breeding, culture, or refinement; clownishness, awkwardness.
1531Elyot Governor iii. xvii. (1880) II. 309 Which in them was neyther folisshenes nor yet rusticitie, but of a prudent consideracion. 1590Spenser F.Q. iii. vi. 1 Seemeth that such wilde woodes should far expell All civile usage and gentility, And gentle sprite deforme with rude rusticity. 1643Sir T. Browne Relig. Med. i. §13 The wisedome of God receives small honour from those vulgar heads that rudely stare about, and with a grosse rusticity admire his workes. 1691Hartcliffe Virtues 185 Rusticity..is nothing but a stupid Sullenness, that makes men appear Ill-bred, and unfit for Company. 1760Phil. Trans. LII. 68 The aukward rusticity of a stranger, introduced the first time to your presence. 1820Scott Abbot xxiv, Yet these high accomplishments were mixed with an air of rusticity and harebrained vivacity. 1880‘Ouida’ Moths II. 253 Ischl has a little rusticity still in her elegant manners.
b. An instance of this.
1803M. Edgeworth Manufacturer Wks. 1832 I. 62 You must not think ill of my cousin, notwithstanding his little rusticities. 1814Jane Austen Mansf. Park ii, The little rusticities and awkwardnesses..necessarily wore away.
2. Lack of intellectual culture; ignorance.
1583Fulke Def. Tr. Script. i. 51 To condemne all men,..out of your readers chaire at Rhemes, of ignorance,..barbarusnes, rusticity. 1695Woodward Nat. Hist. Earth ii. 95 An universal Rusticity presently took place... Those first Ages of the new World were simple, and illiterate to Admiration. 1809Malkin Gil Blas vii. xiii, He began laughing at my rusticity. Well,..replied he,..this sonnet would confuse clearer heads than thine.
3. Of language, composition, etc.: Lack of polish or refinement; uncouthness, inelegance.
1565Cooper Thesaurus s.v. Sal, Pleasant sayinges without rusticitie. 1589Puttenham Eng. Poesie iii. xxi. (Arb.) 256 Some manner of speaches are alwayes intollerable,..namely barbarousnesse, incongruitie,..rusticitie, and all extreme darknesse. 1697Dryden Virgil, Ded. to Ld. Chudleigh, There is a kind of Rusticity in all those pompous Verses. 1741Middleton Cicero (1742) III. xii. 318 It was in Cicero's time, that the old rusticity of the Latin muse first began to be polished. 1839Hallam Hist. Lit. ii. v. §61 Praises which we cannot bestow on the uncouth provincial rusticity of Spenser. 1858Martineau Stud. Chr. 303 A taste formed from the Study of Plato and Seneca may be offended by the rusticity of Mark.
b. A rustic expression.
1711Addison Spect. No. 59 ⁋3 Obsolete Words and Phrases, unusual Barbarisms and Rusticities. 1871R. Ellis Catullus xxxvi. 19 But ye verses,..Rank rusticities, empty vapid annals Of Volusius.
4. Rustic or rural life, quality, or character.
1638Junius Paint. Ancients 183 He was a man that might seeme to be more given to rusticitie than to such kinde of delicacies. 1713Guardian No. 30 ⁋10, I may be allowed, for the Honour of our Language, to suppose it more capable of that pretty Rusticity than the Latin. 1785Walpole Let. to J. Pinkerton 26 June, He..could captivate a lord of Augustus's bed-chamber, and tempt him to listen to themes of rusticity. 1809N. Pinkney Trav. France 276 The town..had an air of rusticity and recluseness which might have delighted a romantic imagination. 1883Harper's Mag. July 165/1 There is little left of the sweet rusticity of Dulwich.
b. A rural feature or characteristic; a rural thing or object.
1662Evelyn Chalcogr. 68 What they graved after Mich. de Vos, and others whose Rusticities they set forth. 1669Worlidge Syst. Agric. Pref., These Rusticities..supply us for our Necessities and advantages; for without this Art none in City or Country could subsist. 1873Browning Red Cotton Night-Cap Country 114 Nought you missed Of one and all the sweet rusticities!
†5. Rusticated style (of masonry). Obs.—1
1730A. Gordon Maffei's Amphith. 212 The Rusticity of the Work..seems to contribute towards Grandeur and Strength.
6. collect. Country persons.
1831Carlyle Sart. Res. i. iii. (1902) 16 A thousand carriages, and wains, and cars, come tumbling-in with Food, with young Rusticity, and other Raw Produce. |