2 uses
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Definition
lacking sufficient water or rainfall
or:
lacking vitality or spirit
or:
lacking vitality or spirit
- Its dry pale surface stretched severely onward, unbroken by a single figure, vehicle, or mark, save some occasional brown horse-droppings which dotted its cold aridity here and there.6 — The Convert (4% in)
- "Why," he said aridly; "I have come all the way here to see you to-day!6 — The Convert (28% in)
There are no more uses of "arid" in Tess of the d'Urbervilles.
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