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squalor|ˈskwɒlə(r), formerly also ˈskweɪlə(r)|
Also 7 squalour, 7–8 squallor.
[a. L. squālor, f. squālēre to be dry, rough, dirty, etc. So It. squallore, OF. squalleur.]
1. a. The state or condition of being physically squalid; a combination of misery and dirt.
1621Burton Anat. Mel. 207 What can poverty giue els, but beggery, fulsome nastinesse, squalor,..drudgery, labor, vglinesse? 1635Swan Spec. M. vii. §3 (1643) 320 Without light..each parcel of the worlds fabrick [would] lie buried in..dismall squalour. 1650Bulwer Anthropomet. 172 The Vice of this denominated Vertue is Squalor. 1714Mandeville Fable Bees (1733) I. 361 The dirt and squallor,..his pastimes and recreations would be all abominable. 1858Hawthorne Fr. & It. Note-bks. II. 198 Hovel piled upon hovel,—squalor immortalized in undecaying stone. 1877Black Green Past. vii, These wretched people living in squalor and ignorance and misery.
b. fig. The quality of being morally squalid; the quality or state of being mentally squalid, or of lacking intellectual sensitivity and order.
1860Emerson Cond. Life vi. Worship, In creeds never was such levity; witness the..squalor of Mesmerism, the deliration of rappings. 1933E. A. Robertson Ordinary Families v. 88 The whole family is much the same. Lives Dangerously in mental squalor. 1941A. Huxley Grey Eminence vi. 139 This strength and magnificence, so very different from our own weakness and mental squalor.
†2. Aridity or roughness. Obs.—1
a1637B. Jonson Discov. Wks. (1641) 116 Let them..no lesse take heed, that their new flowers and sweetnesse doe not as much corrupt, as the others drinesse, and squallor. |