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rawness|ˈrɔːnɪs|
[f. raw a. + -ness.]
1. The state of being raw or crude; fig. imperfection, incompleteness.
c1440Promp. Parv. 424/2 Rawnesse, or rawhede, cruditas. 1616Hieron Wks. I. 586 The rawnesse and raggednesse and independance of that which is deliuered. 1646P. Bulkeley Gospel Covt. To Rdr. 2 The rawnesse of the draught which I had written for the help of myself. a1661Fuller Worthies (1840) III. 108 His book, known by the name of ‘Coriat's Crudities’, nauseous to nice readers, for the rawness thereof. 1809N. Pinkney Trav. France 204 What we should call in wine, their rawness and their freshness.
fig.1605Shakes. Macb. iv. iii. 26 Why in that rawnesse left you Wife, and Childe..Without leaue-taking?
2. Inexperience, ignorance.
1548Udall, etc. Erasm. Par. Luke xxii, Tempering his woordes to the rawnesse of his disciples, which rawenes he suffred..to remaine a long season in them. 1627Hakewill Apol. (1630) 272 Considering the rawnesse of his seamen, and the manifold shipwracks which they sustained. 1710Hearne Collect. (O.H.S.) III. 94 The Bp. denied him Orders for his Rawness in Divinity. 1736Carte Ormonde II. 81 The inexpertness of..the Irish officers..and the rawness of their soldiers. 1861Dickens Gt. Expect. xxxvii, In my first rawness and ignorance.
3. Bareness of flesh, excoriation, soreness.
1607Markham Caval. iii. (1617) 144 His nostrils wide and without rawnesse. 1659Hammond On Ps. lviii. 9 Annot. 298 So shall rawness, so shall anger, or inflammation..affright or perplex them. 1803Med. Jrnl. IX. 525 Universal rawness and soreness in the trachea and chest. 1897Allbutt's Syst. Med. III. 944 A sense of rawness and even actual tenderness in the abdomen.
†b. Indigestion. Obs.
1538Elyot, Cruditas, rawnes, or lack of digestion. 1587Golding De Mornay xiv. 209 Our minde..for all that, neuer feeleth any rawness or lacke of digestion. 1671H. M. tr. Erasm. Colloq. 61 He felt neither pain in his head, nor rawness in his stomach.
4. Chilly dampness, muggy cold.
1608Heywood Lucrece iv. ii, Hath not..the moist rawness of this humorous night, Impair'd your health? 1684Southerne Disappointment iii. i, I am to blame to call thee forth Into the rawness of a midnight air. 1818M. W. Shelley Frankenst. let. iv, He is far too weak to sustain the rawness of the atmosphere. |