comeliness

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  1. The quality of being Comely. Becomingness; suitableness; fitness. For comeliness is a disposing fair Of things and actions in fit time and place. Sir J. Davies, Dancing. The Social Gilds were founded upon the wide basis of brotherly aid and moral comeliness, without distinction (unless expressly specified) of calling or class, and comprehended a great variety of objects. English Gilds (E. E. T. S.), Int., p. xxvii. Handsomeness; gracefulness of form or feature; pleasing appearance, especially of the person or of any part of it. It is not virtue, wisdom, valour, wit, Strength, comeliness of shape, or amplest merit, That woman's love can win or long inherit. Milton, S. A., I. 1011. His face, as I grant, in spite of spite, Has a broad-blown comeliness, red and white. Tennyson, Maud, xiii. It is the beauty of the great economy of the World that makes his [the farmer's] comeliness. Emerson, Farming.

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  • It should be noted that a delight in portraying the fresh comeliness, the elastic beauty of form proper to the youth just passing into the man was common to many Venetian painters at this stage, and coloured their art as it had coloured the whole art of Greece. —  The Earlier Work of Titian
  • "I am aware that I have not the graces of youth and comeliness, and for various reasons your family might oppose. —  Floyd Grandon's Honor
  • "He hath no form nor comeliness, and when we shall see Him, there is no beauty that we should desire Him Many were astonished at thee," says Isaiah. —  The Theology of Holiness
  • This comeliness was wanting in queen Mary, otherwise a very good and honorable princess_. —  Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth
  • Thou thyself {here} mayst view his comeliness, and thou mayst approve of his real form from this feigned resemblance of it. —  The Metamorphoses of Ovid Literally Translated into English Prose, with Copious Notes and Explanations
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