Word Meanings - UNCOURTLINESS - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Absence of courtliness; rudeness; rusticity. Addison.
Related words: (words related to UNCOURTLINESS)
- ABSENCE
1. A state of being absent or withdrawn from a place or from companionship; -- opposed to presence. Not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence. Phil. ii. 12. 2. Want; destitution; withdrawal. "In the absence of conventional law." - RUSTICITY
The quality or state of being rustic; rustic manners; rudeness; simplicity; artlessness. The sweetness and rusticity of a pastoral can not be so well expressed in any other tongue as in the Greek, when rightly mixed and qualified with the Doric - COURTLINESS
The quality of being courtly; elegance or dignity of manners. - ADDISON'S DISEASE
A morbid condition causing a peculiar brownish discoloration of the skin, and thought, at one time, to be due to disease of the suprarenal capsules (two flat triangular bodies covering the upper part of the kidneys), but now known not - UNCOURTLINESS
Absence of courtliness; rudeness; rusticity. Addison. - CRUDENESS
A crude, undigested, or unprepared state; rawness; unripeness; immatureness; unfitness for a destined use or purpose; as, the crudeness of iron ore; crudeness of theories or plans.