Nicety

The Emulational High-Powered Nicety is an electric rifle that, according to the manufacturer "... simulates the real gun and reappears the excellent mechanical assembly."

Boing Boing: October 16, 2005 - October 22, 2005 Archives 2005

Nicety is characteristic of French formal gardens and Virgil Thomson's music, if not always of his criticism.

Ivesiana Yates, Peter 1970

Is not this Nicety of Feeling, this Indisposition to be satisfyed with the Climate, of the same Nature with the

John Adams diary 12, 30 December 1765 - 20 January 1766 1961

Lest a maiden Nicety should prevent the Correspondence, proposed the last

John Adams diary 6, 2 December 1760 - 3 March 1761 1961

-- This, as it is easy to imagine, requir'd much Nicety in the

An Essay towards Fixing the True Standards of Wit, Humour, Railery, Satire, and Ridicule (1744) Corbyn Morris

Gobs, must for these puny Stomachs be minced to Atoms; the Plums must be pick'd with the utmost Care, and every Ingredient proportion'd to the greatest Nicety, or it will never go down.

A Learned Dissertation on Dumpling (1726) [and] Pudding and Dumpling Burnt to Pot. Or a Compleat Key to the Dissertation on Dumpling (1727) Henry Carey

Weight of the Air, and the rising and falling of the Quicksilver expresses the Alterations in its Weight with wonderful Nicety, but then those Alterations are the Cause of this.

The Shepherd of Banbury's Rules to Judge of the Changes of the Weather, Grounded on Forty Years' Experience John Claridge

Allusions of WIT, the Affinity is generally imperfect and defective in one Part or other; and even in those Points where the Affinity may be allow'd to subsist, some Nicety and Strain is usually requir'd to make it appear.

An Essay towards Fixing the True Standards of Wit, Humour, Railery, Satire, and Ridicule (1744) Corbyn Morris

So this unfortunate Lady, divided between Excess of Love, and Nicety of

The Life and Romances of Mrs Eliza Haywood Whicher, George Frisbie 1915

Nicety of execution, technical mastery of fresco as a medium for Dutch detail-painting, prettiness of composition, and cheerfulness of colouring, are noticeable throughout his work here rather than either thought or sentiment.

Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Second Series John Addington Symonds 1866