raucity
English edit
Etymology edit
rauc(ous) + -ity, from Latin raucitas, from raucus (“hoarse”). Compare French raucité.
Noun edit
raucity (uncountable)
- Harshness of sound; rough utterance; hoarseness.
- the raucity of a trumpet, or of the human voice
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “raucity”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)