Definition of "scurviness" []

• The quality or state of being scurvy; vileness; meanness. (noun)

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• "A staggering hound, with scurviness and sores, came up the steps, then on the porch, and licked his face ...."
• "Old Mizaldus taught that "the fasting spittle of a whole and sound person both quite taketh away all scurviness, or redness of the face, ringworms, tetters, and all kinds [179] of pustules, by smearing or rubbing the infected place therewith; and likewise it clean puts away thereby all painful swelling by the means of any venomous thing as hornets, spiders, toads, and such like.""
• "In which passage, Shakspeare, who never uses words in vain, nor with a grain less than their full weight, opposes the divineness of men, or their walking with God, to the scurviness of men, or their wallowing with swine; and again, he opposes the holiness of men, -- in the sense of"