Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Hardness; firmness.
- noun Hardness of mind; harshness; cruelty.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Hardness; firmness.
- noun Harshness; cruelty.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun obsolete
hardness ;firmness - noun obsolete
harshness ;cruelty
Etymologies
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Latin duritas, from durus hard.
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Examples
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They were very hard, harder even than his tempered blade steel, diamond-like in their durity.
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