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callousness|ˈkæləsnɪs|
[f. as prec. + -ness.]
†1.
a. Callous quality or condition, induration;
b. A callous formation; = callosity 1, 2.
c1660Jer. Taylor On Repent. vii. viii, A callousness of his feet or a wart upon his fingers. c1715Cheyne (J.) The skin becomes the thicker, and so a callousness grows upon it. 1765Phil. Trans. LV. 82 There are often found in them [the lungs] tumours, callousnesses, etc.
2. fig. A hardened state of mind, conscience, etc.; want of feeling, insensibility.
1692Bentley Boyle Lect. 12 Abandon'd to a callousness and numness of soul. 1726Butler 15 Serm. v. 91. 1781 Johnson Lett. 258 (1788) II. 194 As I have not the decrepitude I have not the callousness of old age. 1844Stanley Arnold (1858) I. vi. 236 The richer classes will again relapse into their old callousness. 1867Pearson Hist. Eng. II. 35 John's..utter callousness to honour. |