Meaning
RU'DENESS, n.
1. A rough broken state; unevenness; wildness; as the rudeness of a mountain, country or landscape.
2. Coarseness of manners; incivility; rusticity; vulgarity.
And kings the rudeness of their joy must bear.
3. Ignorance; unskillfulness.
What he did amiss was rather through rudeness and want of judgment -
4. Artlessness; coarseness; inelegance; as the rudeness of a painting or piece of sculpture.
5. Violence; impetuosity; as the rudeness of an attack or shock.
6. Violence; storminess; as the rudeness of winds or of the season.
