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sourness
acerbity, astringence, bitter feeling, disappointment, dissatisfiedness, gall and wormwood, inharmony, rancor, spleen, unmusicality
Definition
n.
the taste experience when vinegar or lemon juice is taken into the mouth
Last update: September 21, 2015
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The spoiled milk showed
sourness
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The fruit is often prescribed by village doctors for the jaundice, but from its
sourness
it is seldom eaten uncooked.
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Because it contained some peculiar quality which Shakespeare calls
sourness
, the sheep would not eat the grass of the rings.
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Connective tissue is also soluble in acetic acid, that acid to which the
sourness
of vinegar is due.
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But his enthusiasm was unsullied by fanatic zeal, and unleavened by the
sourness
of the puritanical spirit.
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Sir John Brooke puffed and swore he did not begrudge his losses to see me safe, despite Captain Lewis's
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