asperous

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asperous

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From Latin asper (“rough, coarse”) + -ous.

adjective more asperous · most asperous

  1. Rough, rugged, uneven.
  2. Bitter, cruel, severe. [T]here needeth onely an unfolding and deplication of the inſide of this order, to ſhevv, it is not ſo aſperous and thorny as our Nature apprehendeth it by the firſt glances that light upon it.

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