Obs. [f. SORDID a., or a. F. sordidité (1573).] Sordidness. a. Meanness, miserliness, baseness.
1584. Leycesters Commonw., 197. As for valeur, he hath as much as hath a mouse: his magnanimity is base sordiditie.
1621. Burton, Anat. Mel., I. ii. III. xii. That greediness in getting, tenacity in keeping, sordidity in spending.
1649. Evelyn, Liberty & Servitude, v. Misc. Writ. (1805), 30. The like Sordidityes, which it were a shame to report.
1654. Vilvain, Theorem. Theol., vii. 194. So great glory cannot sort or sute with such sordidity.
b. Dirtiness, filthiness; dirty or foul matter.
1600. Abp. Abbot, Jonah, 401. The backe shall be disguised with sordidity of sackcloth.
1657. Tomlinson, Renous Disp., 396. A dense gumme conspurcated with no sordidity.