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Definition of Crassitude

1. Noun. The quality of being crass--devoid of refinement.

Definition of Crassitude

1. n. Grossness; coarseness; thickness; density.

Definition of Crassitude

1. Noun. (archaic) thickness, coarseness ¹

2. Noun. The state or quality of being crass ¹

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Definition of Crassitude

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Crassitude

Literary usage of Crassitude

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Lectures on the Philosophy of Law: Together with Whewell and Hegel, and by James Hutchison Stirling (1873)
"In the remotest crassitude there is a nisus to this drop. Properly looked at, this crassitude will be seen to rise in circles, ever less and less crass, ..."

2. Classical Philology by University of Chicago press, JSTOR (Organization) (1907)
"... in acutum. crassitude autem in spiritu est, unde etiam Graeci ... but his remarks about "crassitude" point to a Greek source, and therefore what he says ..."

3. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1889)
"... upon a part of a skull discovered in Belgium. crassitude (kras'itüd), n. [< L. crassitude ..."

4. The True Intellectual System of the Universe: Wherein All the Reason and by Ralph Cudworth, Johann Lorenz Mosheim (1845)
"... "compared with the crassitude of matter." He then goes on as follows ... souls according to grace, and in respect to the crassitude of mailer. ..."

5. Lectures on the Philosophy of Law: Together with Whewell and Hegel, and by James Hutchison Stirling (1873)
"In the remotest crassitude there is a nisus to this drop. Properly looked at, this crassitude will be seen to rise in circles, ever less and less crass, ..."

6. Classical Philology by University of Chicago press, JSTOR (Organization) (1907)
"... in acutum. crassitude autem in spiritu est, unde etiam Graeci ... but his remarks about "crassitude" point to a Greek source, and therefore what he says ..."

7. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1889)
"... upon a part of a skull discovered in Belgium. crassitude (kras'itüd), n. [< L. crassitude ..."

8. The True Intellectual System of the Universe: Wherein All the Reason and by Ralph Cudworth, Johann Lorenz Mosheim (1845)
"... "compared with the crassitude of matter." He then goes on as follows ... souls according to grace, and in respect to the crassitude of mailer. ..."

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