Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Sourness; acerbity.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete Sourness and harshness.
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- noun archaic
Sourness andharshness ;acerbity .
Etymologies
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Latin acerbitudo, from acerbus ("bitter, severe")
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Examples
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Our party now passed into St. James's-street, where Miss Macgilligan, whose acerbitude of temper had been much softened by the politeness of her friends during the morning's ramble, mentioned, that she had a visit to make on an occasion of etiquette, and requesting the honour of the gentlemen's company to dinner, she was handed by the Squire of Belville-hall, with all due gallantry and obeisance, into a hackney-chariot; Tom in the meanwhile noting its number, in the anticipation of its ultimately proving a requisite precaution.
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