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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

The state or quality of being gross; thickness; corpulence; coarseness; shamefulness.

Abhor the swinish

grossness

that delights to wound the’ ear of delicacy.

Dr. T. Dwight.

Noun.

Thickness; bulkiness; corpulence; fatness; applied to animal bodies.

Thickness; spissitude; density; as the grossness of vapors.

Coarseness; rudeness; want of refinement or delicacy; vulgarity; as the grossness of language; the grossness of wit.

Abhor the swinish grossness that delights to wound the ear of delicacy.

Greatness; enormity; as the grossness of vice.