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Webster 1913 Edition
Harshness
Harsh′ness
,Noun.
The quality or state of being harsh.
O, she is
Ten times more gentle than her father’s crabbed,
And he's composed of
Ten times more gentle than her father’s crabbed,
And he's composed of
harshness
. Shakespeare
Syn. – Acrimony; roughness; sternness; asperity; tartness. See
Acrimony
. Webster 1828 Edition
Harshness
H`ARSHNESS
,Noun.
1.
Sourness; austereness; as the harshness of fruit.2.
Roughness to the ear; as the harshness of sound or of a voice, or of verse. 'Tis not enough no harshness gives offense,
The sound must seem an echo to the sense.
3.
Roughness of temper; moroseness; crabbedness; peevishness.4.
Roughness in manner or words; severity; as the harshness of reproof.