durity
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Latin duritas, from durus (“hard”).
Noun[edit]
durity
- (obsolete) hardness; firmness
- 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:
- it cometh short of their compactness and durity; and, therefore, requireth not the emery, as the saphire, granite, and topaz, but will receive impression from steel, in a manner like the turquoise.
- (obsolete) harshness; cruelty
- 1689, Richard Braithwaite, Remembrances of Methods, Orders, and Proceedings […] in the House of Lords:
- […] surrendred to the said John by the said William by durity and menaces
References[edit]
- “durity”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.