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ˈbaldness
[f. bald a. + -ness.]
1. Absence or loss of hair, esp. from the head.
1382Wyclif Deut. xiv. 1 Ȝe shulen not kut, ne make ballidnes [1388 ballidnesse, 1535 Coverd. baldnesse.] 1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. vi. xxi, Ȝif mete is to skarse, it..bredeþ ffallynge of heer and ballidnesse. a1448in R. Glouc. 482 (note) The harme of ballednesse. 1608Topsell Serpents 674 The thinnesse, smoothnesse, and baldnesse, of the skin [of Chameleons]. 1705Swift Salamand., And there corrupting to a wound, Spreads leprosy and baldness round. 1850Thackeray Pendennis xlv. (1884) 443 Baldness is busy with his crown.
fig.1382Wyclif Jer. xlvii. 5 Ther cam ballidnesse vp on Gasam. 1788Burke Sp. W. Hastings Wks. XIII. 221 Conquest may cover its baldness with its own laurels.
2. transf. Lack of natural covering; e.g. the bareness of an unwooded country.
1863Baring-Gould Iceland 103 The baldness of the land..made it impossible to get under cover.
3. fig. Meagre simplicity or poverty of style; lack of ornament; bareness, nakedness.
1774Warton Eng. Poetry (1840) III. xli. 5 Borde has all the baldness of allusion and barbarity of versification belonging to Skelton. 1844Stanley Arnold I. iv. 186 From the baldness of his earlier works to the vigorous English of his mature age. 1878P. Bayne Purit. Rev. iii. 87 The harshness and baldness of Puritan worship. |