rusticity
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Etymology
Origin of rusticity
1525–35; < Middle French rusticite < Latin rūstic ( us ) rustic + Middle French -ite -ity
Example Sentences
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Rusticity and Urbanity are polar opposites—and there lie between many million modes of Manners, which you know are Minor Morals.
From Recreations of Christopher North, Volume I (of 2) by Wilson, John Lyde
Wit and Repartee, in an affected Rusticity, were natural to him.
From Characters from 17th Century Histories and Chronicles by Various
Rusticity in the rough they would decidedly not have approved of; rusticity in the smooth they liked very well.
From The Green Carnation by Hichens, Robert Smythe
Rusticity becomes you so that if I were a king, you should dance with me the livelong day.
From Lewis Rand by Johnston, Mary
Rusticity, Avarice and Impudence, are in their own Nature distinct Vices, but yet there is a very near Relation between them, which has a real Foundation in the Actions of Men.
From A Critical Essay on Characteristic-Writings From his translation of The Moral Characters of Theophrastus (1725) by Chorney, Alexander H.
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