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| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : ur-thee |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈɜr θi |
Definition of earthiness
Origin :- 1550s, from earth + -y (2). Figurative sense of "coarse, unrefined" is from 1590s. Related: Earthiness.
- As in coarseness : noun rudeness, vulgarity
- She was an Egeria who hovered above him, gently smiling at his earthiness.
- Extract from : « The Confounding of Camelia » by Anne Douglas Sedgwick
- His passion is often impious in its earthiness; his yearning, sacrilege.
- Extract from : « Paul Verlaine » by Stefan Zweig
- In spite of this earthiness, it still has its fanciful abstractions.
- Extract from : « Socialism and Democracy in Europe » by Samuel P. Orth
- I do not really care how the naturalists maltreat language, but I do strenuously object to the earthiness of their ideas.
- Extract from : « L-bas » by J. K. Huysmans
- They divest objects of their earthiness by bold simplifications, and transform reality into dreamland.
- Extract from : « The History of Modern Painting, Volume 3 (of 4) » by Richard Muther
- She may be mortal woman—bless her—and have made mistakes; but theyre the mistakes of flame; not of earthiness.
- Extract from : « Adrienne Toner » by Anne Douglas Sedgwick
- The spring air in Green River had been full of sweet moisture and earthiness from these steaming meadow-lands.
- Extract from : « Jane Field » by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
- So to Una there was the world-old shock at the earthiness of love—and the penetrating joy of that earthiness.
- Extract from : « The Job » by Sinclair Lewis
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