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Sordidness

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The quality or state of being sordid. uncountable

    "[W]e muſt not take this mercifull indulgence given to our defectuoſities, as a diſpenſation for the ſordidnes of our loves, but rather in a holy effect and contention of gratitude, ſtrain to love God the more purely, and irreſpectively to our ſelves, in regard of the tranſcendent benignity of this diſpenſation."

  2. 2
    unworthiness by virtue of lacking higher values wordnet
  3. 3
    The product or result of being sordid. countable

    "His was a nature—weak I own—that felt a sordidness in narrow means and their attendants; the ugliness of poverty pained his spirit."

  4. 4
    sordid dirtiness wordnet

Etymology

From sordid + -ness.

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