The quality or state of being scurvy; vileness; meanness.(noun)
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Use "scurviness" in a sentence
"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"