rudity

English

Etymology

rude + -ity, from Middle English ruditee, ruditē, from Old French rudete, from Latin ruditas (ignorance), from rudis (rude, illiterate).

Noun

rudity (countable and uncountable, plural rudities)

  1. rudeness; ignorance

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for rudity”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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