[f. as prec. + -NESS.] The state or quality of being crude; crudity.
1533. Elyot, Cast. Helthe, II. xxvii. (1541), 42 b. Abundance of drinke at meale[s] … ingendreth … crudenes in the vaynes.
1635. Cowley, Davideis, I. 870. Nor could their bodies say We owe this Crudeness t’Excess yesterday.
1706. Dodwell, in Hearne, Collect., 22 May. Ye Crudeness of my thoughts.
1837–9. Hallam, Hist. Lit. (1847), I. 375. Long afterwards … when its original crudeness had been mellowed.
1881. Daily News, 3 Jan., 6/6. Occasional crudenesses of thought and style.
