grossness's Usage Examples:

) which denied the Real Presence was substituted one by Guest with the desire " not to deny the reality of the presence of the Body of Christ in the Supper, but only the grossness and sensibleness in the receiving thereof.

A counter reformation can also be traced which attempts to revive Hinduism by purging it of its grossness and allegorizing its fables and legends.

The war thus begun, and known in Russian history as the The Rus- Thirteen Years' War, far exceeded even the Thirty sians invade Years' War in grossness and brutality.

Having invented four arguments all immeasurably subtle and profound, the grossness of subsequent philosophers pronounced him to be a mere ingenious juggler, and his arguments to be one and all sophisms.

In the last of these he maintains that children who die unbaptized must be lost, the pure soul being defiled by the grossness of the body, and declares that God's will is not to be questioned.

For the rest, he purified the stage of much of its grossness, and introduced a relative correctness of costume and decoration unknown before.

Because if he is, he's either grossly mistaken, a damned liar or setting me up!This doctrine, stripped of much of its grossness, is reproduced in the New Testament.

Synonyms:

vulgarism, commonness, coarseness, inelegance, raunch, vulgarity,

Antonyms:

uncommon, unusualness, smoothness, tastefulness, elegance,