rusticityn.

Brit.

/rʌˈstɪsᵻti/, U.S.

/rəˈstɪsᵻdi/

Forms: 1500s rustycyte, 1500s–1600s rusticitie, 1500s– rusticity.

Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French rusticité; Latin rusticitās.

Etymology: < Middle French rusticité (French rusticité ) agricultural work (13th cent. in Old French), boorishness, lack of sophistication (1482), rustic life, character, or style (1512), simplicity belonging to the countryside or its life or inhabitants (1545) and its etymon classical Latin rusticitās fact or state of being country-born, rustic quality, provinciality, uncouthness, lack of sophistication, awkwardness, rustic simplicity, in post-classical Latin also country life, agriculture (3rd cent.), country people (5th cent.) < rusticus rustic adj. + -tās (see -ty suffix¹; compare -ity suffix). Compare Italian rusticità (c1342).In sense 6 originally after Italian rusticità (1728 in the passage translated in quot. 1730 at sense 6).

a. Lack of sophistication or refinement; social awkwardness; boorishness.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > bad taste > lack of refinement > [noun] > homeliness or rusticity

churlhood1382

uplandishness1530

rusticity1531

rusticality1572

homeliness1576

rusticalnessa1603

rusticness1653

bucolicism1879

the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > [noun] > unmannerliness > unrefined manners or behaviour

villainyc1340

churlhood1382

rudenessc1405

boistousness1526

uplandishness1530

rusticity1531

coarseness1541

loutishnessa1556

grossness1563

boorishness1570

rusticality1572

clownishness1576

bouerie1577

roughness1581

clownery1589

swinishness1591

peasantryc1592

inurbanity1598

community1600

rusticalnessa1603

clownagea1637

wildness1639

vulgarness1642

unpolishedness1652

brutism1687

mismanners1697

unpoliteness1700

brutality1709

mechanicism1710

indelicacy1712

untameness1727

vulgarism1749

vulgaritya1774

shag1785

piggishness1796

cubbishness1828

sylvanity1832

rusticness1838

plebeianness1840

swainishness1854

baboonery1857

yahooism1862

slanginess1865

bucolicism1879

vulgarianism1920

outbackery1961

yobbishness1969

ockerism1974

blokeishness1989

1531 T. Elyot Bk. named Gouernour iii. xvi. sig. dvi Which in them was neyther folisshenes nor yet rusticitie, but of a prudent consideracion.

1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene iii. vi. sig. Gg8^v Seemeth that such wilde woodes should far expell All ciuile vsage and gentility, And gentle sprite deforme with rude rusticity.

1643 Sir T. Browne Religio Medici (authorized ed.) i. §13 The wisedome of God receives small honour from those vulgar heads that rudely stare about, and with a grosse rusticity admire his workes.

1691 J. Hartcliffe Treat. Virtues 185 Rusticity..is nothing but a stupid Sullenness, that makes men appear Ill-bred, and unfit for Company.

1762 Philos. Trans. 1761 (Royal Soc.) 52 68 The aukward rusticity of a stranger, introduced the first time to your presence.

1777 H. L. Thrale Diary June in Thraliana (1942) I. 103 Sir Lynch Cotton my Uncle was..full of rusticity which offended, but had humor to divert one.

1820 W. Scott Abbot II. ix. 273 Yet these high accomplishments were mixed with an air of rusticity and hair-brained vivacity.

1880 ‘Ouida’ Moths II. 253 Ischl has a little rusticity still in her elegant manners.

1936 in L. E. Sweet Peoples & Cultures Middle East (1970) 239 The Teyma sheykh was.., in the opinion of the nomads, jàhil , of a certain broken-hearted ineptitude and rusticity.

2002 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.

b. An instance of rude or boorish behaviour; a social solecism; (also) a rustic habit or mannerism. Now rare.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > bad taste > lack of refinement > [noun] > homeliness or rusticity > instance or example of

rusticity1604

homespun1845

the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > [noun] > unmannerliness > unrefined manners or behaviour > instance of

rusticity1604

clownerya1634

vulgarism1785

1604 R. Parsons Relation Triall before King of France 235 Harken I pray yow what manner of speech and threat he vseth towards him,..and this for some kind of rusticity..committed against Sutcliffes person.

1693 A. Monro Serm. Several Occasions i. 12 They measure the Purity of Religion, by its Rusticities and Undecencies, and think that they are never got far enough from Rome, unless they oppose all the decent Customs of the civilized World.

1706 tr. J. B. Morvan de Bellegarde Refl. upon Ridicule 26 The Polite easily excuse the Weaknesses or Rusticities of others.

1753 M. Delany Autobiogr. & Corr. (1861) III. 246 All school-boys must lose some part of the polishing they get at home; a herd of little wild creatures playing together entirely off of their guard will contract of course some rusticities.

1814 J. Austen Mansfield Park I. ii. 31 The little rusticities and awkwardnesses..necessarily wore away.

2007 M. Garson Moral Taste 16 The Fanny we know is not capable of a rusticity: she is always already refined.

a. Of language or literary composition: lack of polish or refinement; inelegance; (without negative connotations) rural character or style.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > inelegance > [noun]

roughnessa1398

beggarliness1542

crabbedness1546

barbarousness1549

grossness1563

rusticity1565

barbarism1578

inconcinnity1616

ungracefulness1658

incuriosity1661

incomptness1669

uncouthness1672

unpoliteness1684

barbarity1706

inelegance1726

inelegancy1727

scabrousness1727

asperity1779

crudity1885

ineloquence1894

1565 T. Cooper Thesaurus at Sal Pleasant sayinges without rusticitie.

1589 G. Puttenham Arte Eng. Poesie iii. xxi. 208 Some maner of speaches are alwayes intollerable..namely barbarousnesse, incongruitie,..rusticitie, and all extreme darknesse.

1697 J. Dryden Ded. Ld. Clifford in tr. Virgil Wks. sig. A1^v There is a kind of Rusticity in all those pompous Verses.

1755 Scots Mag. Oct. 485/1 Others [sc. other writers of pastorals], while they studied to preserve simplicity, have degenerated into rusticity and grossness.

1784 tr. J.-J. Rousseau Eloisa (new ed.) I. Pref. p. iii Whoever may resolve to read these letters ought to arm himself with patience against faults of language, rusticity of stile, and pedantry of expression.

1839 H. Hallam Introd. Lit. Europe II. v. 307 Praises which we cannot bestow on the uncouth provincial rusticity of Spenser.

1890 Edinb. Rev. Apr. 442 The writing of ballads with a contrived archaism or rusticity of language is a fashion of modern literature.

1905 K. Wilkinson Personal Story Upper House xv. 300 He affected a bucolical bearing and a rusticity of speech.

1952 M. Hadas Hist. Lat. Lit. viii. 143 Pastoral poetry has become an art form in which stylized rusticity is a necessary convention.

1992 S. K. George Adventures Woman Homesteader (1993) 207 Sedgwick, a busy editor..admitted he liked the informality and the rusticity of the letter form.

b. An example of this; a rustic word, phrase, or idiom; a rusticism; (also) a rustic composition. Usually in plural.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > language > a language > dialect > [noun] > regional dialects > word or phrase of

rusticity1675

rusticism1749

provincialism1770

villagism1772

localism1823

nationalism1823

colonialism1842

ruralism1854

1675 J. Beale in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 10 367 You must expect no other language, or composure, than what comes first to a running pen, and agrees with rusticities; for which I have more affections, than spare minutes to offer to you.

1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 59. ¶3 Obsolete Words and Phrases, unusual Barbarisms and Rusticities.

1781 tr. Comtesse de Genlis Judge i. ix, in Theatre of Educ. III. 376 These vulgar rusticities, and low expressions, can only excite indignation and contempt, and debase him who makes use of them.

1871 R. Ellis tr. Catullus Poems xxxvi. 19 But ye verses,..Rank rusticities, empty vapid annals Of Volusius.

1897 Pall Mall Gaz. 12 Oct. 9/1 He makes ‘herd’ rhyme with ‘heard’, and ‘hail’ with ‘hell’, and commits other rusticities too numerous to mention.

1921 B. Matthews Ess. on Eng. vii. 140 He [sc. Boccaccio] looks down rather intolerantly upon attempts to utilize these rusticities in verse or in prose.

1971 Times 29 Apr. 11/5 The careful novelist whose rusticities are watered and pruned.

2005 R. Terry Mock-heroic Butler to Cowper vi. 143 Pamela's rusticities of speech (such as her regular pronunciation of ‘curtsy’ as ‘curchee’)..are amplified into Shamela's mouthy vulgarity.

3. Lack of culture or education; ignorance.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > want of knowledge, ignorance > [noun]

unwisdomc825

nutelnessa1200

ignorance?c1225

uncunningc1290

uncunnessa1300

unwittingnessa1300

unknowledging1357

lewdness1362

unsciencec1374

mislearninga1382

simplenessa1382

unknowinga1382

ignorancec1384

unwittingc1384

simplessec1391

rudenessc1400

unweeting14..

lewdhead1401

misknowing?a1425

simplicityc1450

unknowledge1470

discognisancec1475

unknowingness1486

non-knowledge1503

ignorancy1526

simplehead1543

unlearnedness1555

ignoration1563

rusticity1571

ignorantness1574

ignoring1578

inscience1578

ignoramus1583

ingramness1589

lack-learning1590

idiotism1598

ignoramus1598

idiocy1605

nesciencea1625

nescio1637

inerudition1685

unawareness1847

agnosia1879

moronism1922

cluelessness1960

1571 T. Fortescue tr. P. Mexia Foreste f. 182 Greate wealthe also without good letters, is the true pathe to senslis brutalitie, the roote of presumption, and accomplishemente of rusticitie.

1583 W. Fulke Def. Transl. Script. i. 51 To condemne all men,..out of your readers chaire at Rhemes, of ignorance,..barbarusnes, rusticity.

1695 J. Woodward Ess. Nat. Hist. Earth 95 An universal Rusticity presently took place... Those first Ages of the new World were simple, and illiterate to Admiration.

1726 C. Mather Manuductio ad Ministerium 107 The Emperors themselves, so took away their appointed Stipends in all Cities, that being void of all Learning, a Rusticity, both lamentable and shameful, invaded those Cities.

1797 J. Milner Hist. Church of Christ III. vii. iv. 144 He [sc. Isidore] seems to have been providentially given to Spain, in order to preserve some of the antient learning, and to prevent men from sinking into total ignorance and rusticity.

1809 B. H. Malkin tr. A. R. Le Sage Adventures Gil Blas III. vii. xiii. 181 He began laughing at my rusticity. Well..replied he..this sonnet would confuse clearer heads than thine.

1878 Acad. 5 Oct. 335/2 M. Lambros..considers Michael's complaints of the ignorance and rusticity of the Athenians to be exaggerated, and largely owing tо Byzantine pedantry.

1902 H. J. Roby Rom. Private Law I. ii. xi. 120 Mere ignorance, laziness, rusticity or stupidity, was also reason for removal [of a legal guardian].

1994 H. W. Bird in tr. Aurelius Victor De Caesaribus 189 The Epitomator is especially scathing about his rusticity, ignorance and hostility to learning.

a. The state or condition of or associated with living in the countryside; rustic life, character, or style.

ΘΚΠ

society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > district in relation to human occupation > country as opposed to town > [noun] > quality

rusticity1585

rurality1611

rustication1732

pastorality1821

ruralism1835

1585 T. Bilson True Difference Christian Subiection iv. 633 In the village of Christ..there is nothing but rusticitie, & silence, except it be in singing of psalmes.

1622 T. Scott Belgicke Pismire 81 The vnbrideled and licencious youth will..weaue fetters of silke for their owne feete, which their plaine and wise forefathers..broke asunder by industrie, and kept broken by frugality and contented rusticitie.

1638 F. Junius Painting of Ancients 183 He was a man that might seeme to be more given to rusticitie than to such kinde of delicacies.

1785 H. Walpole Let. to J. Pinkerton 26 June He..could captivate a lord of Augustus's bed-chamber, and tempt him to listen to themes of rusticity.

1809 N. Pinkney Trav. South of France 276 The town..had an air of rusticity and recluseness which might have delighted a romantic imagination.

1866 A. Jameson Diary Ennuyeé 312 I have seen..three copies of this picture, in all of them the charming simplicity and rusticity, but in none the exquisite expression of the original.

1898 A. Bennett Man from North xvi. 138 The ‘cosy corner’, an angle of the room furnished with painted mirrors and a bark bench of fictitious rusticity.

1938 Amer. Home June 38/2 Choose elegance, chaste simplicity, gracefulness, dignity, or fireside rusticity.

1976 Nature 1 July 12/2 Strong anachronistic sentiment for rusticity ultimately works against the big.

2005 Food & Trav. Feb.–Mar. 68/3 It is a nice surprise to travel to the ends of the earth and find Beatrix Potterish rusticity and ladies with secateurs.

b. A rustic feature or characteristic; a rural object, practice, custom, etc. Usually in plural.

ΘΚΠ

society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > district in relation to human occupation > country as opposed to town > [noun] > feature

rusticity1662

rurality?1775

1662 J. Evelyn Sculptura iv. 68 What they graved after Mich. de Vos,..and others whose Rusticities they set forth.

1669 J. Worlidge Systema Agriculturæ Pref. These Rusticities..supply us for our Necessities and advantages; for without this Art none in City or Country could subsist.

1723 H. Rowlands Mona Antiqua Restaurata vi. 34 The Notions of People were flat and vulgar, busied only..about obvious Rusticities.

1850 Littell's Living Age 31 Aug. 394/2 That was before the immorality of the Waltz came in..to say nothing of later bustling rusticities, such as the Mazurka.

1873 R. Browning Red Cotton Night-cap Country i. 8 Nought you missed Of one and all the sweet rusticities!

1932 Bull. Metrop. Mus. Art 27 166/2 Fashion was affected inevitably by the elegant rusticities of the Petit Trianon and the activities of royal gardeners.

1955 Archit. Rev. 107 365 Town and country..will consist of a limbo of shacks, bogus rusticities, wire and aerodromes, set in some fir-poled fields.

1998 K. T. Hoppen Mid-Victorian Generation (2003) xii. 465 Those who rarely went to church but wanted to mark seasonal change, recall imagined rusticities, and sing rousing hymns.

5. Country people collectively. Now rare.In later use chiefly with allusion to Carlyle: see quot. 1833.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > farming > farmer > [noun] > rustic or peasant > collectively

land-peoplec1440

peasantry1551

country people?1556

countryfolk1557

rusticity1621

ruraltya1641

society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabitant > inhabitant according to environment > country dweller > [noun] > collectively

land-peoplec1440

country people?1556

countryfolk1557

ruraltya1641

rusticity1833

1621 R. Brathwait Times Curtaine Drawne sig. L2 (heading) Dialogue betweene Hobbinoll the Ploughman, and Nathaniell Spruce the Gentleman; wherein it is proved, how Rusticitie hath advantage vpon Gentrie in the Libertie of Liuing.

1622 J. Taylor Sir Gregory Nonsence sig. B4 How from the Country all the plaine Rusticity, Liues by deceit, exiling plaine simplicity.

1833 T. Carlyle Sartor Resartus in Fraser's Mag. Nov. 587/1 A thousand carriages, and wains, and cars, come tumbling in with Food, with young Rusticity, and other Raw Produce.

1893 W. S. Crockett Minstrelsy of Merse 265 The usual varied experience of young Rusticity fell to his lot: cow-herding, crow-herding, and the wild, free delights of the fields.

1905 J. B. Russell Public Health Admin. Glasgow vi. 308 I do not find fault with the towns for attracting ‘young rusticity,’ or young rusticity for being attracted.

6. Architecture. Rusticated style or work. See rusticated adj. 2a.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > architecture > architectural ornament > [noun] > rustic work > style

rusticity1730

rustication1766

1730 A. Gordon tr. F. S. Maffei Compl. Hist. Anc. Amphitheatres 212 The Rusticity [It. rusticità] of the Work..seems to contribute towards Grandeur and Strength.

1870 S. Sloan Sloan's Homestead Archit. 14 There is quite an exhibition of bold rusticity, combined with an evident neatness of finish.

1899 Archit. Rec. July 51 The basement here is..of brown stone, treated with the same rusticity as before.

2001 T. R. Brown & S. Warmflash Archit. Bergen County, New Jersey 171 Frequently, native materials such as unpainted shingles or fieldstone are employed, and rusticity is not uncommon.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2011; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	rusticity
释义	rusticityn. Brit. /rʌˈstɪsᵻti/, U.S. /rəˈstɪsᵻdi/ Forms: 1500s rustycyte, 1500s–1600s rusticitie, 1500s– rusticity. Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French rusticité; Latin rusticitās. Etymology: < Middle French rusticité (French rusticité ) agricultural work (13th cent. in Old French), boorishness, lack of sophistication (1482), rustic life, character, or style (1512), simplicity belonging to the countryside or its life or inhabitants (1545) and its etymon classical Latin rusticitās fact or state of being country-born, rustic quality, provinciality, uncouthness, lack of sophistication, awkwardness, rustic simplicity, in post-classical Latin also country life, agriculture (3rd cent.), country people (5th cent.) < rusticus rustic adj. + -tās (see -ty suffix¹; compare -ity suffix). Compare Italian rusticità (c1342).In sense 6 originally after Italian rusticità (1728 in the passage translated in quot. 1730 at sense 6). 1. a. Lack of sophistication or refinement; social awkwardness; boorishness. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > bad taste > lack of refinement > [noun] > homeliness or rusticity churlhood1382 uplandishness1530 rusticity1531 rusticality1572 homeliness1576 rusticalnessa1603 rusticness1653 bucolicism1879 the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > [noun] > unmannerliness > unrefined manners or behaviour villainyc1340 churlhood1382 rudenessc1405 boistousness1526 uplandishness1530 rusticity1531 coarseness1541 loutishnessa1556 grossness1563 boorishness1570 rusticality1572 clownishness1576 bouerie1577 roughness1581 clownery1589 swinishness1591 peasantryc1592 inurbanity1598 community1600 rusticalnessa1603 clownagea1637 wildness1639 vulgarness1642 unpolishedness1652 brutism1687 mismanners1697 unpoliteness1700 brutality1709 mechanicism1710 indelicacy1712 untameness1727 vulgarism1749 vulgaritya1774 shag1785 piggishness1796 cubbishness1828 sylvanity1832 rusticness1838 plebeianness1840 swainishness1854 baboonery1857 yahooism1862 slanginess1865 bucolicism1879 vulgarianism1920 outbackery1961 yobbishness1969 ockerism1974 blokeishness1989 1531 T. Elyot Bk. named Gouernour iii. xvi. sig. dvi Which in them was neyther folisshenes nor yet rusticitie, but of a prudent consideracion. 1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene iii. vi. sig. Gg8^v Seemeth that such wilde woodes should far expell All ciuile vsage and gentility, And gentle sprite deforme with rude rusticity. 1643 Sir T. Browne Religio Medici (authorized ed.) i. §13 The wisedome of God receives small honour from those vulgar heads that rudely stare about, and with a grosse rusticity admire his workes. View more context for this quotation 1691 J. Hartcliffe Treat. Virtues 185 Rusticity..is nothing but a stupid Sullenness, that makes men appear Ill-bred, and unfit for Company. 1762 Philos. Trans. 1761 (Royal Soc.) 52 68 The aukward rusticity of a stranger, introduced the first time to your presence. 1777 H. L. Thrale Diary June in Thraliana (1942) I. 103 Sir Lynch Cotton my Uncle was..full of rusticity which offended, but had humor to divert one. 1820 W. Scott Abbot II. ix. 273 Yet these high accomplishments were mixed with an air of rusticity and hair-brained vivacity. 1880 ‘Ouida’ Moths II. 253 Ischl has a little rusticity still in her elegant manners. 1936 in L. E. Sweet Peoples & Cultures Middle East (1970) 239 The Teyma sheykh was.., in the opinion of the nomads, jàhil , of a certain broken-hearted ineptitude and rusticity. 2002 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. b. An instance of rude or boorish behaviour; a social solecism; (also) a rustic habit or mannerism. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > bad taste > lack of refinement > [noun] > homeliness or rusticity > instance or example of rusticity1604 homespun1845 the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > [noun] > unmannerliness > unrefined manners or behaviour > instance of rusticity1604 clownerya1634 vulgarism1785 1604 R. Parsons Relation Triall before King of France 235 Harken I pray yow what manner of speech and threat he vseth towards him,..and this for some kind of rusticity..committed against Sutcliffes person. 1693 A. Monro Serm. Several Occasions i. 12 They measure the Purity of Religion, by its Rusticities and Undecencies, and think that they are never got far enough from Rome, unless they oppose all the decent Customs of the civilized World. 1706 tr. J. B. Morvan de Bellegarde Refl. upon Ridicule 26 The Polite easily excuse the Weaknesses or Rusticities of others. 1753 M. Delany Autobiogr. & Corr. (1861) III. 246 All school-boys must lose some part of the polishing they get at home; a herd of little wild creatures playing together entirely off of their guard will contract of course some rusticities. 1814 J. Austen Mansfield Park I. ii. 31 The little rusticities and awkwardnesses..necessarily wore away. View more context for this quotation 2007 M. Garson Moral Taste 16 The Fanny we know is not capable of a rusticity: she is always already refined. 2. a. Of language or literary composition: lack of polish or refinement; inelegance; (without negative connotations) rural character or style. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > inelegance > [noun] roughnessa1398 beggarliness1542 crabbedness1546 barbarousness1549 grossness1563 rusticity1565 barbarism1578 inconcinnity1616 ungracefulness1658 incuriosity1661 incomptness1669 uncouthness1672 unpoliteness1684 barbarity1706 inelegance1726 inelegancy1727 scabrousness1727 asperity1779 crudity1885 ineloquence1894 1565 T. Cooper Thesaurus at Sal Pleasant sayinges without rusticitie. 1589 G. Puttenham Arte Eng. Poesie iii. xxi. 208 Some maner of speaches are alwayes intollerable..namely barbarousnesse, incongruitie,..rusticitie, and all extreme darknesse. 1697 J. Dryden Ded. Ld. Clifford in tr. Virgil Wks. sig. A1^v There is a kind of Rusticity in all those pompous Verses. 1755 Scots Mag. Oct. 485/1 Others [sc. other writers of pastorals], while they studied to preserve simplicity, have degenerated into rusticity and grossness. 1784 tr. J.-J. Rousseau Eloisa (new ed.) I. Pref. p. iii Whoever may resolve to read these letters ought to arm himself with patience against faults of language, rusticity of stile, and pedantry of expression. 1839 H. Hallam Introd. Lit. Europe II. v. 307 Praises which we cannot bestow on the uncouth provincial rusticity of Spenser. 1890 Edinb. Rev. Apr. 442 The writing of ballads with a contrived archaism or rusticity of language is a fashion of modern literature. 1905 K. Wilkinson Personal Story Upper House xv. 300 He affected a bucolical bearing and a rusticity of speech. 1952 M. Hadas Hist. Lat. Lit. viii. 143 Pastoral poetry has become an art form in which stylized rusticity is a necessary convention. 1992 S. K. George Adventures Woman Homesteader (1993) 207 Sedgwick, a busy editor..admitted he liked the informality and the rusticity of the letter form. b. An example of this; a rustic word, phrase, or idiom; a rusticism; (also) a rustic composition. Usually in plural. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > a language > dialect > [noun] > regional dialects > word or phrase of rusticity1675 rusticism1749 provincialism1770 villagism1772 localism1823 nationalism1823 colonialism1842 ruralism1854 1675 J. Beale in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 10 367 You must expect no other language, or composure, than what comes first to a running pen, and agrees with rusticities; for which I have more affections, than spare minutes to offer to you. 1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 59. ¶3 Obsolete Words and Phrases, unusual Barbarisms and Rusticities. 1781 tr. Comtesse de Genlis Judge i. ix, in Theatre of Educ. III. 376 These vulgar rusticities, and low expressions, can only excite indignation and contempt, and debase him who makes use of them. 1871 R. Ellis tr. Catullus Poems xxxvi. 19 But ye verses,..Rank rusticities, empty vapid annals Of Volusius. 1897 Pall Mall Gaz. 12 Oct. 9/1 He makes ‘herd’ rhyme with ‘heard’, and ‘hail’ with ‘hell’, and commits other rusticities too numerous to mention. 1921 B. Matthews Ess. on Eng. vii. 140 He [sc. Boccaccio] looks down rather intolerantly upon attempts to utilize these rusticities in verse or in prose. 1971 Times 29 Apr. 11/5 The careful novelist whose rusticities are watered and pruned. 2005 R. Terry Mock-heroic Butler to Cowper vi. 143 Pamela's rusticities of speech (such as her regular pronunciation of ‘curtsy’ as ‘curchee’)..are amplified into Shamela's mouthy vulgarity. 3. Lack of culture or education; ignorance. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > want of knowledge, ignorance > [noun] unwisdomc825 nutelnessa1200 ignorance?c1225 uncunningc1290 uncunnessa1300 unwittingnessa1300 unknowledging1357 lewdness1362 unsciencec1374 mislearninga1382 simplenessa1382 unknowinga1382 ignorancec1384 unwittingc1384 simplessec1391 rudenessc1400 unweeting14.. lewdhead1401 misknowing?a1425 simplicityc1450 unknowledge1470 discognisancec1475 unknowingness1486 non-knowledge1503 ignorancy1526 simplehead1543 unlearnedness1555 ignoration1563 rusticity1571 ignorantness1574 ignoring1578 inscience1578 ignoramus1583 ingramness1589 lack-learning1590 idiotism1598 ignoramus1598 idiocy1605 nesciencea1625 nescio1637 inerudition1685 unawareness1847 agnosia1879 moronism1922 cluelessness1960 1571 T. Fortescue tr. P. Mexia Foreste f. 182 Greate wealthe also without good letters, is the true pathe to senslis brutalitie, the roote of presumption, and accomplishemente of rusticitie. 1583 W. Fulke Def. Transl. Script. i. 51 To condemne all men,..out of your readers chaire at Rhemes, of ignorance,..barbarusnes, rusticity. 1695 J. Woodward Ess. Nat. Hist. Earth 95 An universal Rusticity presently took place... Those first Ages of the new World were simple, and illiterate to Admiration. 1726 C. Mather Manuductio ad Ministerium 107 The Emperors themselves, so took away their appointed Stipends in all Cities, that being void of all Learning, a Rusticity, both lamentable and shameful, invaded those Cities. 1797 J. Milner Hist. Church of Christ III. vii. iv. 144 He [sc. Isidore] seems to have been providentially given to Spain, in order to preserve some of the antient learning, and to prevent men from sinking into total ignorance and rusticity. 1809 B. H. Malkin tr. A. R. Le Sage Adventures Gil Blas III. vii. xiii. 181 He began laughing at my rusticity. Well..replied he..this sonnet would confuse clearer heads than thine. 1878 Acad. 5 Oct. 335/2 M. Lambros..considers Michael's complaints of the ignorance and rusticity of the Athenians to be exaggerated, and largely owing tо Byzantine pedantry. 1902 H. J. Roby Rom. Private Law I. ii. xi. 120 Mere ignorance, laziness, rusticity or stupidity, was also reason for removal [of a legal guardian]. 1994 H. W. Bird in tr. Aurelius Victor De Caesaribus 189 The Epitomator is especially scathing about his rusticity, ignorance and hostility to learning. 4. a. The state or condition of or associated with living in the countryside; rustic life, character, or style. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > district in relation to human occupation > country as opposed to town > [noun] > quality rusticity1585 rurality1611 rustication1732 pastorality1821 ruralism1835 1585 T. Bilson True Difference Christian Subiection iv. 633 In the village of Christ..there is nothing but rusticitie, & silence, except it be in singing of psalmes. 1622 T. Scott Belgicke Pismire 81 The vnbrideled and licencious youth will..weaue fetters of silke for their owne feete, which their plaine and wise forefathers..broke asunder by industrie, and kept broken by frugality and contented rusticitie. 1638 F. Junius Painting of Ancients 183 He was a man that might seeme to be more given to rusticitie than to such kinde of delicacies. 1785 H. Walpole Let. to J. Pinkerton 26 June He..could captivate a lord of Augustus's bed-chamber, and tempt him to listen to themes of rusticity. 1809 N. Pinkney Trav. South of France 276 The town..had an air of rusticity and recluseness which might have delighted a romantic imagination. 1866 A. Jameson Diary Ennuyeé 312 I have seen..three copies of this picture, in all of them the charming simplicity and rusticity, but in none the exquisite expression of the original. 1898 A. Bennett Man from North xvi. 138 The ‘cosy corner’, an angle of the room furnished with painted mirrors and a bark bench of fictitious rusticity. 1938 Amer. Home June 38/2 Choose elegance, chaste simplicity, gracefulness, dignity, or fireside rusticity. 1976 Nature 1 July 12/2 Strong anachronistic sentiment for rusticity ultimately works against the big. 2005 Food & Trav. Feb.–Mar. 68/3 It is a nice surprise to travel to the ends of the earth and find Beatrix Potterish rusticity and ladies with secateurs. b. A rustic feature or characteristic; a rural object, practice, custom, etc. Usually in plural. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > district in relation to human occupation > country as opposed to town > [noun] > feature rusticity1662 rurality?1775 1662 J. Evelyn Sculptura iv. 68 What they graved after Mich. de Vos,..and others whose Rusticities they set forth. 1669 J. Worlidge Systema Agriculturæ Pref. These Rusticities..supply us for our Necessities and advantages; for without this Art none in City or Country could subsist. 1723 H. Rowlands Mona Antiqua Restaurata vi. 34 The Notions of People were flat and vulgar, busied only..about obvious Rusticities. 1850 Littell's Living Age 31 Aug. 394/2 That was before the immorality of the Waltz came in..to say nothing of later bustling rusticities, such as the Mazurka. 1873 R. Browning Red Cotton Night-cap Country i. 8 Nought you missed Of one and all the sweet rusticities! 1932 Bull. Metrop. Mus. Art 27 166/2 Fashion was affected inevitably by the elegant rusticities of the Petit Trianon and the activities of royal gardeners. 1955 Archit. Rev. 107 365 Town and country..will consist of a limbo of shacks, bogus rusticities, wire and aerodromes, set in some fir-poled fields. 1998 K. T. Hoppen Mid-Victorian Generation (2003) xii. 465 Those who rarely went to church but wanted to mark seasonal change, recall imagined rusticities, and sing rousing hymns. 5. Country people collectively. Now rare.In later use chiefly with allusion to Carlyle: see quot. 1833. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > farmer > [noun] > rustic or peasant > collectively land-peoplec1440 peasantry1551 country people?1556 countryfolk1557 rusticity1621 ruraltya1641 society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabitant > inhabitant according to environment > country dweller > [noun] > collectively land-peoplec1440 country people?1556 countryfolk1557 ruraltya1641 rusticity1833 1621 R. Brathwait Times Curtaine Drawne sig. L2 (heading) Dialogue betweene Hobbinoll the Ploughman, and Nathaniell Spruce the Gentleman; wherein it is proved, how Rusticitie hath advantage vpon Gentrie in the Libertie of Liuing. 1622 J. Taylor Sir Gregory Nonsence sig. B4 How from the Country all the plaine Rusticity, Liues by deceit, exiling plaine simplicity. 1833 T. Carlyle Sartor Resartus in Fraser's Mag. Nov. 587/1 A thousand carriages, and wains, and cars, come tumbling in with Food, with young Rusticity, and other Raw Produce. 1893 W. S. Crockett Minstrelsy of Merse 265 The usual varied experience of young Rusticity fell to his lot: cow-herding, crow-herding, and the wild, free delights of the fields. 1905 J. B. Russell Public Health Admin. Glasgow vi. 308 I do not find fault with the towns for attracting ‘young rusticity,’ or young rusticity for being attracted. 6. Architecture. Rusticated style or work. See rusticated adj. 2a. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > architecture > architectural ornament > [noun] > rustic work > style rusticity1730 rustication1766 1730 A. Gordon tr. F. S. Maffei Compl. Hist. Anc. Amphitheatres 212 The Rusticity [It. rusticità] of the Work..seems to contribute towards Grandeur and Strength. 1870 S. Sloan Sloan's Homestead Archit. 14 There is quite an exhibition of bold rusticity, combined with an evident neatness of finish. 1899 Archit. Rec. July 51 The basement here is..of brown stone, treated with the same rusticity as before. 2001 T. R. Brown & S. Warmflash Archit. Bergen County, New Jersey 171 Frequently, native materials such as unpainted shingles or fieldstone are employed, and rusticity is not uncommon. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2011; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.1531
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