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squalidity|skwɒˈlɪdɪtɪ|
[ad. L. squāliditās, or f. squalid a. + -ity.]
The quality or character of being foul or squalid; filthiness, squalidness.
1668H. More Div. Dial. iii. xxiii. (1713) 227 That horrid Squalidity in the Usages of the barbarous Nations presseth hard toward that Conclusion. 1721Bailey, Squalidity, filthiness, nastiness, ill-favouredness. 1773Observ. State Poor 34 Rags and vermin, squalidity and disease. 1823Blackw. Mag. XIV. 252 He has no keeping about him, excepting a sort of medium tint of squalidity. 1857Kingsley Misc. (1859) II. 340 Ill-built rows of undrained cottages,..left to run into squalidity and disrepair. 1875Helps Soc. Press. iii. 53 The hideous difficulty and squalidity which beset those who are placed low down in the world. |