Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for RUDE'NESS
RUDE'NESS, n.
- A rough broken state; unevenness; wildness; as, the rudeness of a mountain, country or landscape.
- Coarseness of manners; incivility; rusticity; vulgarity. And kings the rudeness of their joy must bear. Dryden.
- Ignorance; unskillfulness. What he did amiss was rather through rudeness and want of judgment. Hayward.
- Artlessness; coarseness; inelegance; as, the rudeness of a painting or piece of sculpture.
- Violence; impetuosity; as, the rudeness of an attack or shock.
- Violence; storminess; as, the rudeness of winds or of the season.
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