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sorˈdidity
[f. sordid a., or a. F. sordidité (1573).]
Sordidness. a. Meanness, miserliness, baseness.
1584Leycester's Commonw. 197 As for valeur, he hath as much as hath a mouse: his magnanimity is base sordiditie. 1621Burton Anat. Mel. i. ii. iii. xii, That greediness in getting, tenacity in keeping, sordidity in spending. 1649Evelyn Liberty & Serv. v. Misc. Writ. (1805) 30 The like Sordidityes, which it were a shame to report. 1654Vilvain Theorem. Theol. vii. 194 So great glory cannot sort or sute with such sordidity. 1917V. Woolf Diary 22 Nov. (1977) I. 80 Hearing women abuse each other & at the noise others come running with delight—all this sordidity made me think him rather likely to be right. 1923Times Lit. Suppl. 23 Aug. 554/1 His [sc. Defoe's] very precise and solid account of licence, adventure, and sordidity [in Roxana]. 1964A. Swinson Six Minutes to Sunset viii. 150 Carson then switched his attack to the political manœuvring, condemning it for its duplicity and sordidity. 1978Times Lit. Suppl. 1 Dec. 1382/2 Empson seems to insist that one cannot truly admire him without agreeing with him about the sordidity of Englit.
b. Dirtiness, filthiness; dirty or foul matter.
1600Abbot Jonah 401 The backe shall be disguised with sordidity of sackcloth. 1657Tomlinson Renou's Disp. 396 A dense gumme conspurcated with no sordidity. 1927V. Woolf Let. 7 Feb. (1977) III. 326 Here it is pouring; rain coming through the roof; the sordidity too much for me even. 1936S. Smith Novel on Yellow Paper 152 The lovely deep rich olive green and brown and yellow sordidity of Sickert's London interiors. 1958Times Lit. Suppl. 30 May 291/1 As the inevitable midnight flittings required less and less transport for the furniture and a large family grew up in an atmosphere of increasing poverty, sordidity and even occasional violence, James observed the domestic scene with the eye of an artist. |