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Webster 1913 Edition
Acerbity
1.
Sourness of taste, with bitterness and astringency, like that of unripe fruit.
2.
Harshness, bitterness, or severity;
as,
. acerbity
of temper, of language, of painBarrow.
Webster 1828 Edition
Acerbity
ACERB'ITY
,Noun.
1.
A sourness, with roughness, or astringency.2.
Figuratively, harshness or severity of temper in man.Definition 2024
acerbity
acerbity
English
Noun
acerbity (plural acerbities)
- Sourness of taste, with bitterness and astringency, like that of unripe fruit.
- Harshness, bitterness, or severity; as, acerbity of temper, of language, of pain.
- 1905, Baroness Emmuska Orczy, chapter 1, in The Case of Miss Elliott:
- “Well ?” I repeated with some acerbity. I had been wondering for the last ten minutes how many more knots he would manage to make in that same bit of string before he actually started undoing them again.
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Translations
sourness
harshness
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References
- acerbity in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913