English
Etymology
harsh +-ness
Noun
en-noun
- The quality of being harsh.
#:1891 And yet these harshnesses are tenderness itself when compared with the universal harshness out of which they grow; the harshness of the position towards the temperament, of the means towards the aims, of to-day towards yesterday, of hereafter towards to-day. Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles, [http://etext.virginia.edu/etcbin/ot2www-pubeng?specfile/texts/english/modeng/publicsearch/modengpub.o2w&actsurround&offset344607629&tagHardy,+Thomas:+Tess+of+the+d'Urbervilles,+1891&queryharshness&idHarTess Part 6.]
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