Definitions
Sorry, no definitions found. Check out and contribute to the discussion of this word!
Etymologies
Sorry, no etymologies found.
Support
Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word sauvity.
Examples
-
"The Death of the Pope" employs convenient and flimsy plot contrivances, a (for all his suppossed sauvity) one-dimensional bad guy, and a disappointing denouement.
Read on new novel: "it's about the battle between liberal and conservative Catholics" 2009
-
The saintly Willie Rushton addressed this problem in his seminal tome 'Super Pig' and came to the conclusion that sauvity a la Charles Boyer got equal satisfaction ratings to the drainpipe climbing of Douglas Fairbanks Jnr - and he wasn't too knackered for the main event, either.
Win Ms Robinson. Sort of Ms Robinson 2008
-
“For by nature ye be a very handsome man, shepherd,” continued Joseph Poorgrass, with winning sauvity.
-
"For by nature ye be a very handsome man, shepherd," continued Joseph Poorgrass, with winning sauvity.
-
An invariable sauvity of manner, a scrupulous regard for prejudices to oppose which directly would have been vain, an inflexible sentiment of justice, had given him an ascendency over the Mussulman population, which the precepts of the Koran could not lead any one to hope for, and which powerfully contributed to the maintenance of friendly relations between the inhabitants of Cairo and the French soldiers.
Biographies of Distinguished Scientific Men Arago, Francois 1859
-
"Then I beg to tell you, sir," said Varney, with much sauvity of manner, "then I beg to tell you, sir, that there has been a fire in your inn -- a young lady frightened out of her senses, and I know not the cause."
-
He has great sauvity of manners, and a genuine benevolence of disposition, that makes him fond of having his friends about him; and it is particularly gratifying to him to pick up any genteel stranger within the purlieus of Swallow Barn, and put him to the proof of a week's hospitality, if it be only for the pleasure of exercising his rhetoric upon him.
Swallow Barn, or A Sojourn in the Old Dominion. In Two Volumes. Vol. I. 1832
-
An invariable sauvity of manner, a scrupulous regard for prejudices to oppose which directly would have been vain, an inflexible sentiment of justice, had given him an ascendency over the Mussulman population, which the precepts of the
Biographies of Distinguished Scientific Men Baden Powell 1819
Comments
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.