durity en · NOUN
Etymology
From Latin duritas, from durus (“hard”).
Meanings
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(obsolete) hardness; firmness
it cometh short of their compactness and durity; and, therefore, requireth not the emery, as the saphire, granite, and topaz, but will receive impression from steel, in a manner like the turquoise.
1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:
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(obsolete) harshness; cruelty
[…]surrendred to the said John by the said William by durity and menaces
1689, Richard Braithwaite, Remembrances of Methods, Orders, and Proceedings […] in the House of Lords: