ACERBITY

n.

2 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
n.

Sourness of taste, with bitterness and astringency, like that of unripe fruit.

2.
n.

Harshness, bitterness, or severity; as, acerbity of temper, of language, of pain. Barrow.


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