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c1405 (c1395) G. Chaucer Clerk's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 397 It ne semed nat..That she was born and fed in rudenesse As in a cote or in an Oxe Stalle, But norissed in an Emperours halle.

a1413 (c1385) G. Chaucer Troilus & Criseyde (Pierpont Morgan) (1882) iv. l. 1489 Ye shul dullen of þe rudenesse Of vs sely Troians.

c1460 (a1449) J. Lydgate Minor Poems (1934) ii. 836 A cherl of nature wil brayde on rewdnesse.

a1513 W. Dunbar Poems (1998) I. 262 We ar so bestlie, dull, and ignorant, Our rudnes may nocht lichtlie be correctit.

a1525 Contempl. Synnaris l. 1473, in W. A. Craigie Asloan MS (1925) II. 238 Reforme in tyme þi raifand rudness O creatur' quhilk suld be ressonable.

1579 E. K. in E. Spenser Shepheardes Cal. Ep. Ded. ⁋1 Thinking them fittest for such rusticall rudenesse of shepheards.

1630 tr. G. Botero Relations Famous Kingdomes World (rev. ed.) 534 So unspeakable is the rudenesse of either, that through all their Cities you shall not finde a Schoole to instruct their youth.

1673 J. Ray Observ. Journey Low-countries 119 The Negligence and Rudeness of the People who mind nothing that is Curious.

1741 C. Middleton Hist. Life Cicero II. viii. 236 That state of rudeness and barbarism.

1774 T. Warton Hist. Eng. Poetry I. Pref. p. i We are pleased to mark the steps by which we have been raised from rudeness to elegance.

1797 R. Warner Illustr. Rom. Antiq. discovered at Bath p. xi Our British ancestors themselves, quitting, by degrees, the wild recesses of the neighbouring forests, and the rudenesses of savage life, would at length be brought to admire the elegancies, and participate in the delights of, Aquæ Solis.

1807 G. Chalmers Caledonia I. iii. x. 458 Those similarities, which the same state of rudeness, or civility, will ever produce.

1841 Lady Eastlake Resid. Shores Baltic I. xxii. 185 Russia has only two ranks—the highest and the lowest; consequently it exhibits all those rudenesses of social life which must be attendant on these two extremes of power and dependence.

1888 J. Bryce Amer. Commonw. III. xciii. 290 The rudeness of the times, in which physical force counted for so much.

1901 Rep. Commissioner of Educ. 1899–1900 I. 414 Philosophy coincides with the Bible—man was created in the image of God, and the rudeness and coarseness of uncivilized communities are states of degradation into which he has apostatized and sunk.

1935 S. P. Delany Married Saints 181 Since her residence in France, Anne Boleyn had cultivated foreign ways and manners; but [Thomas] More preferred the healthy rudenesses of his own beloved England.

1957 W. K. Wimsatt & C. Brooks Lit. Crit. ii. xi. 214 Here we have..a milestone in one kind of Augustanism, the superior notion that the rudeness of the past ought to be translated into the elegance of the present.

2002 P. Barolsky in Arion Fall 51 In his very rudeness, Cyclops is the personification of rusticity, as we see in the gigantic oaf pictured by Sebastiano del Piombo.

c1451 J. Capgrave Life St. Gilbert (1910) 74 (MED) Þorw his wordis and his dedes þe rudenesse of many a soule was reformed.

a1513 R. Fabyan New Cronycles Eng. & Fraunce (1516) I. xxii. f. xv^v This also is vnmynded of wryters outher for restfulnesse of tyme or ellys for rudenesse of his dedys.

1538 J. Bale Tragedye Promyses God 11 I knowe thy mercye is farre above hys rudenesse.

c1443 R. Pecock Reule of Crysten Religioun (1927) 257 It is so þat oon man forto receive of an oþer man ȝiftis of larges..and forto neuer ȝelde..to so large a fre ȝeuer summe ȝiftis..were a greet boistose ruydnes.

1642 J. Howell Instr. Forreine Travell v. 71 The Spaniard will starve rather than..commit such a rudenesse.

1699 R. Bentley Diss. Epist. Phalaris (new ed.) Pref. p. lxxviii There's one Rudeness, that I ought not to omit; because it falls upon others, as much as my self.

1718 Free-thinker No. 51. 2 Contradiction of every Kind is a Rudeness.

1754 World III. No. 95 223 This particular way of thinking very frequently subjects me to little rudenesses and affronts.

1783 J. Bennett Disc. Fatal Pract. Duelling 16 Little rudenesses, in short, are matters of no moment.

1816 New Monthly Mag. May 331/1 Among the Turks it is a rudeness to take off the turban or to uncover the head.

c1858 S. S. Steele Crock of Gold iv. iv, in America's Lost Plays (1941) XIV. 230 Silkhair, if ever again you repeat a rudeness of the kind upon anyone under my protection, I'll compliment your suavity with a cane.

1894 Academy 21 July 46/1 Francie is one type of Irish girl: ignorant.., with a mouthful of picturesque flatteries and childlike rudenesses, speaking an atrocious Dublin accent.

1923 R. Lynd Blue Lion viii. 61 They thrust them upon you as you are leaving, with an enthusiasm that would make it seem a rudeness to refuse.

1974 K. Williams Diary 19 Mar. (1993) 470 I had far too much to drink and shouted at Gerald who was giving lunch to Ernie Stewart ‘The moths will fly out of your wallet’ and other rudenesses.

2007 J. S. Saeger F. S. López & Ruination of Paraguay iv. 102 He became choleric when he observed foreigners behave disrespectfully to him and his country, a rudeness that never happened to a López in Paraguay.

?1533 G. Du Wes Introductorie for to lerne Frenche sig. Uiii ^v The rudenesse that I yuel manerd haue vsed toward your hyghnesse.

1566 W. Painter Palace of Pleasure I. lvi. f. 332 He prayed him not to take in ill part the rudenesse of his seruaunts.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Twelfth Night (1623) i. v. 205 The rudenesse that hath appear'd in mee, haue I learn'd from my entertainment. View more context for this quotation

1637 J. Milton Comus 7 I should be loath To meet the rudenesse, and swill'd insolence Of such late Wassailers.

a1691 R. Boyle Christian Virtuoso in Wks. (1774) V. 509 The seeming rudeness of the angel to St. Peter, when he struck him on the side, and hastily rouzed him.

1741 I. Watts Improvem. Mind i. xiii. 183 'Tis a Piece of Rudeness to interrupt another in his Speech.

1778 F. Burney Evelina III. xx. 229 The rudeness of his manner..springs from the same cause.

1822 C. Lamb in London Mag. Nov. 455/2 A pattern of true politeness to a wife—of cold contempt, or rudeness, to a sister.

1871 B. Jowett tr. Plato Dialogues III. 365 I hope..that I am not betrayed into rudeness by my love of conversation.

1908 H. W. V. Temperley in A. W. Ward et al. Cambr. Mod. Hist. V. xv. 466 The conduct of Duchess Sarah towards Anne passed from mere rudeness to open flouting.

1946 W. H. Auden Table Talk 16 Nov. (1990) 85 For an Englishman coming over here to teach, the rudeness of the students is quite shocking.

1983 A. Walker In Search of our Mothers' Gardens 165 I remember the cold rudeness of the waitresses in the restaurant.

1992 J. Trollope Men & Girls (1993) xiii. 222 You must make allowances for my uncle. He affects rudeness and temper to cover a heart of marshmallow.

2007 B. J. Millis in J. Cartafalsa & L. Anderson Joy of Teaching vi. 44 I was stunned by his apparent rudeness—‘civility’ was not then the issue it is now.

c1450 C. d'Orleans Poems (1941) 36 (MED) Now ihesu, saue this shippe..ageyne the false conspere Of suche as haue with daunger allyaunce, Whiche wolde, of thefte and ther gret rewdenes, Birobbe me, loo, of alle my goodly chaunce.

?c1450 tr. Bk. Knight of La Tour Landry (1906) 24 (MED) A woman may..make hym do well with fairnesse rather thanne with rudenesse.

1609 W. Shakespeare Troilus & Cressida i. iii. 207 The Ram that batters downe the wall, For the great swinge and rudenesse of his poise, They place before his hand that made the engine. View more context for this quotation

1638 R. Baker tr. J. L. G. de Balzac New Epist. II. 40 There are even some beasts of so generous a disposition, that it would be rudenesse to carry a hard hand over them.

1682 J. Norris tr. Hierocles Golden Verses 70 Not to doe it with violence and rudeness, but to follow the truth with mildness.

1704 in Mem. Hist. Soc. Pennsylvania (1870) IX. 318 A difference arose, that ended with some rudeness.

1818 W. Scott Heart of Mid-Lothian vi, in Tales of my Landlord 2nd Ser. II. 128 As Ratcliffe approached, Sharpitlaw pushed the young woman towards him with some rudeness.

1832 E. Bulwer-Lytton Eugene Aram I. ix. 146 He darts forward; he is opposite the yellow-dun,—he pushes his nose against it with an eager rudeness.

1867 Southern Rev. July 121 With some rudeness, she was dragged to the scaffold, and, having ascended it, she was bound to the stake.

c1948 F. Fremont-Smith in S. J. Taylor Acts of Conscience (2009) xiii. 304 The press has awakened us from our lethargy—a rude awakening, perhaps, but the rudeness of the awakening is often in proportion to the depth of somnolence.

1995 R. P. Rivera Fabricated Mexican 157 It's a rude awakening for many students and I don't like rudeness.]

1649 Bp. J. Taylor Great Exemplar i. 120 John the Baptist..did violence to himself,..the rudenesses of Camels hair and the lowest nutriment of Flyes, were instances of that violence.

1665 R. Boyle Disc. iv. iii, in Occas. Refl. sig. E8 The Gardener do's..secure the Tree from being blown down, or torn, by the rudeneness [sic] of boisterous Winds.

1691 J. Evelyn Kalendarium Hortense (ed. 8) 135 The not observing of this, destroys more Plants than all the Rudenesses of the Season.

1762 C. Churchill Ghost ii. 40 She, who on earth was nice and prim, Of delicacy full, and whim, Whose tender Nature could not bear The rudeness of the churlish air, Is doom'd to mortify her pride, The change of weather to abide.

1765 J. Tunstall Lect. Nat. & Revealed Relig. xvii. 117 Pleasures, which would otherwise clog, are renewed by little interruptions and disagreeable vicissitudes, as a gay prospect is rendered more agreeable, when diversified with the rudenesses of nature.

1809 ‘Tekeli’ Poems (1810) 82 I dried his curling locks so wet, And made him smiling soon forget, The rudeness of the weather.

a1858 T. H. Chivers Leoni in Unpublished Plays (1980) iv. i. 56 She bows, once more in grandeur to the gale, And conquered by the rudeness of the blast, Sinks down an hour's sail of land.

1884 J. E. T. Rogers Six Cent. Work & Wages iii. 101 The freshness and glory of spring was heightened by the rudeness of the season which it followed.

1903 A. C. M. Refl. Lonely Man i. 6 The mere thickness of a window-pane separates the rudeness of the storm from the cozy comfort of the room.

1934 E. Carr Jrnl. 11 June in Hundreds & Thousands (2006) 189 Sometimes it gets so rough that we let the flaps down,..resisting the cold until the sun shines out and shames the wind's rudeness and our flaps are all loosed up again.

2004 Cornishman (Nexis) 10 June 49 The sheltered undergrowth had protected the wild flowers from the rudeness of the recent wind and rain and all was pristine.

1692 A. Wood Diary 14 Jan. in Life & Times (1894) III. 380 Many rudenesses and rogueries committed by them.

1790 G. Walker Serm. Var. Subj. II. 99 Many an impotent encounter with the rudenesses and selfishness and cruelty of undisciplined passion.