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ˈbluntness
[f. blunt a. + -ness.]
†1. Dullness of wit, stupidity. Obs.
1483Cath. Angl. 35 A Bluntnes, ebitudo. 1623Cockeram, Hebetude, bluntnesse, dulnesse.
2. Obtuseness or dullness of point or edge.
1530Palsgr. 199/1 Bluntnesse of any edged toole. 1655W. Gurnall Chr. in Arm. xiii. (1669) 92/2 His worldly employments do not turn the edge of his affections, & leave a bluntness upon his spirit. 1794G. Adams Nat. & Exp. Philos. III. xxxi. 243 Rounded with a fine bone..which causes a sufficient bluntness or rolling edge.
3. Rudeness, absence of delicacy or refinement; abruptness of manner or address, curtness.
1605Shakes. Lear ii. ii. 102 Who hauing beene prais'd for bluntnesse, doth affect A saucy roughnes. a1674Clarendon Hist. Reb. III. x. 36 The bluntness and positiveness of the few words he spoke. 1751Fielding Amelia Wks. 1775 X. 124 Bluntness, or rather rudeness, as it commonly deserves to be called, is not always so much a mark of honesty as it is taken to be. 1833Marryat P. Simple (1863) 237 The bluntness with which he used to contradict and assert his disbelief of Captain Kearney's narratives. |