Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In botany, the state or property of being rough.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The quality of being scabrous.
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- noun
scabrosity
Etymologies
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Examples
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[382] Evangelical Protestantism has more than once adopted the principle that the Devil should not be allowed to have all the best tunes: and I remember in my youth an English religious novel of ultra-anti-Roman purpose, which, though, of course, dropping the "scabrousness," had, as
A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800 George Saintsbury 1889
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As so often in British productions of Scandinavian drama, scabrousness begins to look like tasteful distress.
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God knows, but the live cover of The Sonics '' Strychnine 'is as good rock and roll scabrousness as you could wish for.
FallNews 2001
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A very few remarks may perhaps be made on approaches to Zolaism -- not in the sense of scabrousness -- before Zola.
A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century George Saintsbury 1889
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He had done no less than make himself a one-man industry by turning scabrousness into an endearment, but that must have been the way we felt about Cosell, because even when we cursed him we kept on watching.
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The surprise, however, is the interior, where this combination of extravagance and scabrousness continues the Grosvenor House
The Guardian World News Luke Bainbridge 2010
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The surprise, however, is the interior, where this combination of extravagance and scabrousness continues
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The surprise, however, is the interior, where this combination of extravagance and scabrousness continues
Travel news, travel guides and reviews | guardian.co.uk 2009
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