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单词 raucity
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raucityn.

Brit. /ˈrɔːsᵻti/, U.S. /ˈrɔsədi/, /ˈrɑsədi/
Forms: 1600s rawcity, 1600s– raucity.
Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin raucitās.
Etymology: < classical Latin raucitās hoarseness, raucousness < raucus hoarse (see raucous adj.) + -tās (see -ty suffix1; compare -ity suffix). Compare Middle French, French raucité (a1272 in Old French). Compare slightly earlier raucedity n.
Hoarseness; harshness or roughness of sound, esp. of the voice.
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the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > unpleasant quality > harsh or discordant quality > [noun]
harshnessc1480
dissonance1598
raucedity1599
raucity1607
untunableness1611
disharmony1656
asperity1664
raucidity1669
inharmoniousness1768
tunelessness1881
untunefulness1881
the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > voice or vocal sound > quality of voice > [noun] > hoarse or husky quality
hoarsenessc1000
rownessa1398
hoarseheadc1440
haskness?a1513
roup1579
raucity1607
retuseness1657
raucidity1669
throatiness1800
yawp1835
crackiness1891
1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 196 Aristotle calleth it rawcity, or hoarsnes, like the low sound of a Trumpet.
1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §700 In the Raucity of a Trumpet.
1656 T. Blount Glossographia Raucity, hoarseness.
1755 tr. F. Engel New Theory Human Nature ii. 189 Some among us, raucity of voice excepted, speak as in the days of Brennus and Arminius.
1818 Edinb. Med. & Surg. Jrnl. 14 205 The obstruction of the natural passage of the air produces a raucity of the voice.
1856 J. H. Pulte Homœopathic Domest. Physician ii. iii. 524 Violent coryza, with hoarseness and raucity of the chest.
1924 C. J. Finger Lawless Lands x. 173 He was slow of speech and incurious, and his was that raucity of a lad whose voice had but recently broken.
1998 K. Lette Altar Ego v. 54 Yawing voices honed by thousands of pounds of private education, clashed atonally with the strident raucity of Mr de Kock's Euro-trash coterie.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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