cariousness
English
Noun
cariousness (uncountable)
- the state or quality of being carious, an advanced state of corrosion.
- 1811, J. F. Berger, Transactions of the Geological Society, "Observations on the Physical Structure of Devonshire and Cornwall," vol. 1, p. 126, note:
- Ramond found granites in the high chain of the Pyrenees, corroded both externally and internally: not detached blocks alone, he informs us, but whole regions are attacked with this cariousness, the cause of which is still unknown.
- 1811, J. F. Berger, Transactions of the Geological Society, "Observations on the Physical Structure of Devonshire and Cornwall," vol. 1, p. 126, note:
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