01 n. The quality or state of being rustic; rustic manners; rudeness; simplicity; artlessness.
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The quality or state of being rustic; rustic manners; rudeness; simplicity; artlessness.“The sweetness and rusticity of a pastoral can not be so well expressed in any other tongue as in the Greek, when rightly mixed and qualified with the Doric dialect.” — Addison.“The Saxons were refined from their rusticity.” — Sir W. Scott.