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raggedness|ˈrægɪdnɪs|
[f. ragged a.1 + -ness.]
The fact or condition of being ragged.
1. Roughness; irregularity of form, surface, etc.
1538Elyot Dict., Lamæ, the raggydnesse of rockes. 1601Holland Pliny xxxii. x. 448 The grosse pickle sauce called Alex..cureth the raggednesse of nails. 1610Donne Lett. (1651) 224 You have been so long used to my hand that I stand not to excuse the hasty raggednesse of this letter. 1658Evelyn French Gardiner (1675) 71 Pared away the raggednesse which the saw hath left. 1725Bradley Fam. Dict. s.v. Shoeing of Horses, The raggedness also on the outside of the coffin should be fil'd away.
2. Ragged state of clothing or persons.
1580Sidney Arcadia iii. (1598) 297 His decking..being cut out into the fashion of very rags: yet all so daintily ioyned together with precious stones, as it was a braue raggednesse. 1605Shakes. Lear iii. iv. 31 Your lop'd, and window'd raggednesse. 1728–9Swift Lett., to Worrall 13 Jan. (1766) II. 89 My raggedness will soon force me away. 1816W. Taylor in Monthly Rev. LXXXI. 121 That ignoble raggedness with which Aristophanes reproaches this tragedian. 1859Sala Tw. round Clock (1861) 96 His silk gown is shabby, almost to raggedness.
3. fig. Want of coherence, connexion, etc. rare.
1590C. S. Right Relig. 32 These painted clothes bewray the raggednesse of their religion. 1616Hieron Wks. I. 586 The more aduised, holding it vp (as it were) against the light, see the rawnesse and raggednesse and independance of that which is deliuered.
4. Irregularity, lack of uniformity.
1885Manch. Guard. 28 Mar. 6/6 The most noticeable faults of the Cantabs are bad time and raggedness of feather. 1894Times 4 June 11/5 The most remarkable feature of the shooting was the raggedness of the volleys. |