gracility

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In person, he was tall, fair, and of limbs distinguished for their elegant proportions and gracility.

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  1. The character of being gracile; slenderness. [Pare.] It was accordingly subjected to a process of extenuation, out of which it emerged reduced to little more than a third of its original gracility—a skeleton without marrow or substance. Sir W. Hamilton.

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  • In person, he was tall, fair, and of limbs distinguished for their elegant proportions and gracility. —  The Caesars
  • In person, Caesar was tall, fair, and of limbs distinguished for their elegant proportions and gracility. —  The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 570, October 13, 1832
  • The other gentleman, stretched at ease in a deep chair, with one leg propped on a cricket, had the distinction of long forms, which the years had left in their youthful gracility; his snow-white moustache had been allowed to droop over the handsome mouth, whose teeth were beginning to go. —  The Minister's Charge
 

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  1. = Old French gracilite, French gracilité = Italian gracilità, from Latin gracilita(t-)s, slenderness, thinness, from gracilis, slender: see gracile.
 

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