durity
nounEtymology From Latin duritas, from durus (“hard”).
1
Obsolete hardness; firmness
- it cometh short of their compactness and durity; and, therefore, requireth not the emery, as the saphire, granite, and topaz, but will receive impression from steel, in a manner like the turquoise.1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:
2
Obsolete harshness; cruelty
- […]surrendred to the said John by the said William by durity and menaces1689, Richard Braithwaite, Remembrances of Methods, Orders, and Proceedings […] in the House of Lords: