rusticity
noun
the state or quality of being rustic.
rusticities
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pluralof rusticity.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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She has collected around her all manner of pretty rusticities; all the comfortable elegancies she could imagine.
From The Cross of Berny by Florence Fendall
It was the more touching from occasional rusticities and artistic defects, which showed that she had received no culture from art.
From Sunny Memories of Foreign Lands, Volume 2 by Harriet Beecher Stowe
But ye verses, away to fire, to burning, Rank rusticities, empty vapid annals 20 Of Volusius, heap of all dishonour.
From The Poems and Fragments of Catullus by Robinson Ellis
What a perpetual fund would it have been of obsolete words and phrases, unusual barbarisms and rusticities, absurd spellings and complicated dialects!
From Essays and Tales by Henry Morley
To Gard it all now appeared seemly enough, like an opera peasant ballet whose frank rusticities were excused under the inspiration of the music.
From Villa Elsa A Story of German Family Life by Stuart Oliver Henry
