Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state of being rubicund; redness.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The quality or state of being rubicund; ruddiness.
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- noun The state or condition of being
rubicund ;ruddiness ,redness .
Etymologies
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Examples
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He was a hale man, and well preserved for his time of life; but nevertheless, the extra rubicundity of his face, and certain incipient pimply excrescences about his nose, gave tokens that he lived too freely.
Castle Richmond 2004
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As both these worthies were distinguished by that rubicundity of face with which it is marked, the reader may decree the honour of a sitting to which he pleases.
The Works of William Hogarth: In a Series of Engravings With Descriptions, and a Comment on Their Moral Tendency John Trusler
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A glaring red paper gave a rich appearance to the hall; the stair carpet also added its contribution to the rubicundity of the scene, which was brought to a _ne plus ultra_ by the nether habiliments of the two gentlemen who, as already stated, did the honours of the door.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 342, April, 1844 Various
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"Atlantean shoulders," and bore upon its tower-like and sturdy stem, a countenance prepossessing from its good-humour, and amazing for its plumpness and rubicundity.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 359, March 7, 1829 Various
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He wore no gloves; but the bloated rubicundity of his hands was relieved by
The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 1, April, 1851 Various
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Macaulay spoke of his “rector-like amplitude and rubicundity.”
Sydney Smith Rusell, George W E 1904
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Elsa leaned upon her elbows, and she smiled a little as she noted that the purple had gone from his nose and that it had resumed its accustomed rubicundity.
Parrot & Co. Harold MacGrath 1901
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Swinging on an iron bar which projected from the porticoed entrance, and supported by two grimacing cherubs, once daintily pink, but now verging on rubicundity, a change due either to the vicissitudes of the weather or to the close proximity to the wine-cellars, -- was a horn of plenty, the pristine glory of which had also departed.
The Grey Cloak Harold MacGrath 1901
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For thirty years his mottled nose and the rubicundity of his cheeks were the ineffaceable ensigns of his intemperance.
A Book of Scoundrels 1896
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For thirty years his mottled nose and the rubicundity of his cheeks were the ineffaceable ensigns of his intemperance.
A Book of Scoundrels Charles Whibley 1894
qroqqa commented on the word rubicundity
To my surprise I was hustled from behind by what logically I took to be other conférenciers – except that they were two broad-hipped, headscarfed women of uplands rubicundity whom you would expect to see behind a trestle table selling twelve eggs and a skinned rabbit rather than signing copies of their latest novel.
— Julian Barnes, 1996, 'Gnossienne', in Cross Channel
July 10, 2008