Lack of refinement in character, behaviour etc.; coarseness.
Now that he was doing so much else she could never have the grossness to apply for it to Sir Claude.
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(slang) The quality of being repulsive or disgusting.
August 25, 1759, Samuel Johnson, The Idler No. 71
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(obsolete) Size.
: He began to descend to familiar questions, endeavouring to accommodate his discourse to the grossness of rustic understandings. The clowns soon found that he did not know wheat from rye, and began to despise him; one of the boys, by pr…
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