obtusity
Noun
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Noun
obtusity
- obtuseness
- 1848, [Rigby, Elizabeth.] "[https://web.archive.org/web/20120518085228/http://faculty.plattsburgh.edu/peter.friesen/default.asp?go=252 Vanity Fair--and Jane Eyre]." London Quarterly Review, December 1848.
- Some ladies would have thought it high time to leave the Squire alone with his chestnut tree; or, at all events, unnecessary to keep up that tone of high-souled feminine obtusity which they are quite justified in adopting if the gentlemen will not speak out—but Jane again does neither.
- 1848, [Rigby, Elizabeth.] "[https://web.archive.org/web/20120518085228/http://faculty.plattsburgh.edu/peter.friesen/default.asp?go=252 Vanity Fair--and Jane Eyre]." London Quarterly Review, December 1848.
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