Durity vs Durty - What's the difference?
durity | durty |
(obsolete) hardness; firmness
(obsolete) harshness; cruelty
* 1662 , , Book II, A Collection of Several Philosophical Writings of Dr. Henry More, p. 49:
As a noun durity
is hardness; firmness.As an adjective durty is
an archaic spelling of lang=en.durity
English
Noun
- (Sir Thomas Browne)
- (Cockeram)
durty
English
Adjective
- "For men in stead of those magnificent Buildings which are seen in the world, could have had no better kind of dwellings then a bigger sort of Bee-hives or Birds-nests, made of contemptible sticks, and straws, and durty morter."