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‘eximious’ (all in Hacket), ‘arride’ {50} (ridiculed by Ben Johnson), with the hundreds of other words like these, and even more monstrous than are some of these, not to speak of such Italian as ‘leggiadrous’ (a favourite word in Beaumont’s _Psyche_), ‘amorevolous’ (Hacket), had not been rejected and disallowed by the true instinct of the national mind.

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Graceful; pleasing. Yet this Retirement's cloud ne′r overcast Those beams of leggiadrous courtesy Which smild in her deportment. J. Beaumont, Psyche, xviii.

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12 So leggiadrous were her snowy hands — Specimens with Memoirs of the Less-known British Poets, Complete
‘eximious’ (all in Hacket), ‘arride’ {50} (ridiculed by Ben Johnson), with the hundreds of other words like these, and even more monstrous than are some of these, not to speak of such Italian as ‘leggiadrous’ (a favourite word in Beaumont’s _Psyche_), ‘amorevolous’ (Hacket), had not been rejected and disallowed by the true instinct of the national mind. — English Past and Present