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Torvity   Listen
adjective
Torvity  adj.  Sourness or severity of countenance; sternness. (Obs.)






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Torvity" Quotes from Famous Books



... its diaphaneity, even in the crepuscle, makes it a pharos, and without laud, for its agglutination and amenity, it is a most delectable commorance; and whoever lives in it will find that the neighbours have none of the truculence and immanity, the torvity, the spinosity, the putidness, the pugnacity, nor the fugacity observable in other parts of the town. Their propinquity and consanguinity occasions jucundity and pudicity, from which and the redolence of the place ...
— Talkers - With Illustrations • John Bate



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