Definition of Rudery

1. a rude act [n -ERIES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Rudery

ruddy turnstone
ruddying
rude(a)
rude awakening
rudeboy
rudeboys
rudely
rudeness
rudenesses
rudenkoite
ruder
ruderal
ruderals
ruderies
rudery (current term)
rudes
rudesbies
rudesby
rudesbys
rudest
rudie
rudies
rudiment
rudimenta
rudimental
rudimentarily
rudimentariness
rudimentary
rudiments

Literary usage of Rudery

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

1. Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review by William B. Dana (1869)
"... exhibited some specimens of native copper ware, t'nned inside, rudery done no doubt, but proving they possess that as well as several other useful arts. ..."

2. Money by Francis Amasa Walker (1877)
"A public inquiry could not be ventured for fear of creating a panic, and the following rudery ingenious method was suggested as likely to give an ..."

3. Free speech bibliography: including every discovered attitude toward the by Theodore Albert Schroeder (1922)
"Medical Brief 32:852-55 Oct, 1904 1'rudery opposed as against welfare of community, the arts and sciences. Supporting opinions of others quoted. ..."

4. Debates and Proceedings of the National Council of Congregational Churches by James Manning Winchell Yerrinton, Henry Martyn Parkhurst (1866)
"DAVID JONES, Wind Street Chapel, Neath. JOHN JONES, rudery. THO'S LLEWELYN, Mountain Aih, Aber- JAMES EVANS, ..."

5. Gutter-babies by Dorothea Slade (1912)
"she says to me. ' Not ef yer sticks yer great carcase in the light!' I tells 'er. So she says, says she, ' Now, then, none of yer rudery! ..."

6. Cyclopedia of English Literature: a Selection of the Choicest Productions of edited by Robert Chambers (1851)
"... and his animadversions were seconded by «t's parishioners. Churchill affected to ridicule rudery, and Lloyd made it the subject of an .m ..."

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