Obs. [f. SORDID a., or a. F. sordidité (1573).] Sordidness. a. Meanness, miserliness, baseness.

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1584.  Leycester’s Commonw., 197. As for valeur, he hath as much as hath a mouse: his magnanimity is base sordiditie.

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1621.  Burton, Anat. Mel., I. ii. III. xii. That greediness in getting, tenacity in keeping, sordidity in spending.

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1649.  Evelyn, Liberty & Servitude, v. Misc. Writ. (1805), 30. The like Sordidityes, which it were a shame to report.

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1654.  Vilvain, Theorem. Theol., vii. 194. So great glory cannot sort or sute with such sordidity.

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  b.  Dirtiness, filthiness; dirty or foul matter.

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1600.  Abp. Abbot, Jonah, 401. The backe shall be disguised with sordidity of sackcloth.

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1657.  Tomlinson, Renou’s Disp., 396. A dense gumme conspurcated with no sordidity.

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