[f. CHURLISH + -NESS.] Churlish quality or state; rudeness, roughness, sullenness, harshness, niggardliness.
1528. Tindale, Parable Wicked Mam., Wks. I. 117. The cruelness and churlishness of father and mother.
1561. T. Norton, Calvin’s Inst., III. 226. Some … geue nothing but either with pride of looke, or with chorlishnesse of wordes they vpbraide it.
1659. Gentl. Call. (1696), 46. The churlishness of a Nabal makes men they cannot speak to him.
1846. De Quincey, Chr. as Organ Pol. Movem., Wks. (1859), XII. 245. What churlishness, if you should grudge to others a health which does not interfere with your own!
