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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

[L.

rusticitas

: cf. F.

rusticité

The quality or state of being rustic; rustic manners; rudeness; simplicity; artlessness.

The sweetness and

rusticity

of a pastoral can not be so well expressed in any other tongue as in the Greek, when rightly mixed and qualified with the Doric dialect.

Addison.

The Saxons were refined from their

rusticity

Sir W. Scott.

Noun.

[L. rusticitas.]

The qualities of a countryman; rustic manners; rudeness; coarseness; simplicity; artlessness.

rusticity ‎(countable and uncountable, plural rusticities)

that which makes something rustic