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1. Sourness of taste, with bitterness and astringency, like that of unripe fruit.
2. Harshness, bitterness, or severity; as, acerbity of temper, of language, of pain.
Origin: F. Acerbite, L. Acerbitas, fr. Acerbus. See Acerb.
(01 Mar 1998)
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