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inurbanitas

inurbanitas [ML] , lack of refinement or wit, inelegance, rudeness: a (in behaviour); b (in speech or literary style). a in quantum illorum ~as permittebat F. Malm. V. Aldh. 5. 79D; c1205 vos nec visitastis [me] infirmum nec ‥ michi revelastis adventum; sed ‥ ~atem ‥ vestram equa puniam talione P. Blois Ep. Sup. 52. 2; ~as, A. vylonye WW.  b propter nimiam illic verborum ~atem et indecentiam H. Bos. Thom. IV 10; s1460 nil aliud nisi verba probrosa ‥ transmiserunt ‥ illis. de cujus ~ate transmissionis proceres ‥ irritati ‥ Reg. Whet. I 373.

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