cragginessn.
/ˈkraɡɪnɪs/ The quality of being craggy; ruggedness.
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1611 J. Speed Hist. Great Brit. ix. iv. 337/2 The Mountanous cragginesse of the Country.
1680 R. Morden Geogr. Rectified (1685) 251 Its high Hills..thought unpleasant objects for their cragginess.
1735–6 T. Carte Hist. Life Duke Ormonde I. 319 By the hardness and cragginess of the ways, their feet had been so hurt.
1883 Cent. Mag. 27 112 About Ben Nevis there is barrenness, cragginess, and desolation.
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