Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Wrongly used for exquisiteness.
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- noun The state or quality of being
exquisitive .
Etymologies
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exquisitive + -ness
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Examples
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Heavens! thou art a strange creature, Slawkenbergius! what a whimsical view of the involutions of the heart of woman hast thou opened! how this can ever be translated, and yet if this specimen of Slawkenbergius’s tales, and the exquisitiveness of his moral, should please the world — translated shall a couple of volumes be. —
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Heavens! thou art a strange creature, Slawkenbergius! what a whimsical view of the involutions of the heart of woman hast thou opened! how this can ever be translated, and yet if this specimen of Slawkenbergius’s tales, and the exquisitiveness of his moral, should please the world — translated shall a couple of volumes be. —
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