Definition of Ruder

1. Adjective. (comparative of rude) ¹

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Definition of Ruder

1. rude [adj] - See also: rude

Lexicographical Neighbors of Ruder

ruddy
ruddy duck
ruddy shelduck
ruddy shelducks
ruddy turnstone
ruddying
rude(a)
rude awakening
rudeboy
rudeboys
rudely
rudeness
rudenesses
rudenkoite
ruder (current term)
ruderal
ruderals
ruderies
rudery
rudes
rudesbies
rudesby
rudesbys
rudest
rudie
rudies
rudiment
rudimenta
rudimental

Literary usage of Ruder

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Journal of the American Chemical Society by American Chemical Society (1912)
"BY WE ruder Received February 5. 1912. Since the production of tungsten and molybdenum metals in a malleable and ductile form,2 various interesting ..."

2. The Complete Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott by Walter Scott (1900)
"And O, forget its ruder part ! The vacant purse shall be my share, Which in my barret-cap I '11 bear, Perchance, in jeopardy of war, Where gayer crests may ..."

3. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1843)
"Among the many vices of this younger Verus, he possessed one virtue ; a dutiful reverence for his wiser colleague, to whom he willingly abandoned the ruder ..."

4. The Past in the Present: What is Civilization? by Arthur Mitchell (1881)
"So it has happened that such of these brooches as continued to be made in recent times became ruder and ruder, ..."

5. A Cycle of Adams Letters, 1861-1865 by Charles Francis Adams, Henry Adams (1920)
"speak in the sublimely simple utterance of ruder times. What will Europe think of this utterance of the rude ruler, of whom they have nourished so lofty a ..."

6. On Translating Homer: Three Lectures Given at Oxford by Matthew Arnold (1861)
"Certainly his poetry has all the energy and power of the poetry of our ruder climates ; but it has, besides, the pure lines of an Ionian horizon, ..."

7. Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature (1907)
"... Spencer) upon Shamanism, and the still ruder Fetichism. The lowest religions are characterized by their containing the greatest Magic has been analyzed. ..."

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