[ad. L. squāliditās, or f. SQUALID a. + -ITY.] The quality or character of being foul or squalid; filthiness, squalidness.

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1668.  H. More, Div. Dial., III. xxiii. (1713), 227. That horrid Squalidity in the Usages of the barbarous Nations presseth hard toward that Conclusion.

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1721.  Bailey, Squalidity, filthiness, nastiness, ill-favouredness.

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1773.  Observ. State Poor, 34. Rags and vermin, squalidity and disease.

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1823.  Blackw. Mag., XIV. 252. He has no keeping about him, excepting a sort of medium tint of squalidity.

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1857.  Kingsley, Misc. (1859), II. 340. Ill-built rows of undrained cottages,… left to run into squalidity and disrepair.

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1875.  Helps, Soc. Press., iii. 53. The hideous difficulty and squalidity which beset those who are placed low down in the world.

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