| 释义 |
coarseness|ˈkɔəsnɪs|
[f. as prec. + -ness.]
The quality of being coarse; roughness, rudeness, want of fineness or refinement, etc.: see the adj.
1541Act 33 Hen. VIII, c. 18 The coursnes of the woll. 1586W. Webbe Eng. Poetrie (Arb.) 53 The coursenes of our speeche. 1662Fuller Worthies (1840) III. 281 Writing truly and orderly, only guilty of coarseness of style. 1790Burke Fr. Rev. 118 There appears..a coarseness and vulgarity in all the proceedings of the assembly. 1823Lamb Elia (1860) 206 Her voice had lately acquired a coarseness. 1840Lardner Geom. 143 The coarseness or fineness of the canvass. 1879Farrar St. Paul (1883) 235 A Rome which had lost its simplicity and retained its coarseness. |