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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The quality of being featurely or handsome.

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Examples

  • As the picturesqueness, the featureliness, of society diminishes, aristocracy loses the single instrument of its peculiar power.

    The English Constitution Walter Bagehot 1851

  • Nor must we omit his meagerness and entire featureliness, face and frame, which Cervantes gives us at once: "It is said that his surname was 'Quixada' or 'Quesada,'" &c. -- even in this trifle showing an exquisite judgment; -- just once insinuating the association of 'lantern-jaws' into the reader's mind, yet not retaining it obtrusively like the names in old farces and in the Pilgrim's

    Literary Remains, Volume 1 Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1803

  • Progress, -- but taking for the regular appellative one which had the no meaning of a proper name in real life, and which yet was capable of recalling a number of very different, but all pertinent, recollections, as old armour, the precious metals hidden in the ore, &c. Don Quixote's leanness and featureliness are happy exponents of the excess of the formative or imaginative in him, contrasted with Sancho's plump rotundity, and recipiency of external impression.

    Literary Remains, Volume 1 Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1803

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