concinnity
Americannoun
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Rhetoric.
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a close harmony of tone as well as logic among the elements of a discourse.
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an instance of this.
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any harmonious adaptation of parts.
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Origin of concinnity
1525–35; < Latin concinnitās, equivalent to concinn ( us ) concinnous + -itās -ity
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Novak was delighted by this concinnity, and even more delighted by the treatments on offer that day at the storefront franchise spa concept.
From New York Times • Oct. 12, 2021
The Wintersian virtue of concinnity become a principle of governance:
From The New Yorker • Mar. 11, 2019
The tendency of his genius had never been, and at the end was less than ever, in the direction of concinnity.
From Aspects and Impressions by Gosse, Edmund
None of the stories are precisely those of Aesop, and none have the concinnity, terseness, and unmistakable deduction of the lesson intended to be taught by the fable, so conspicuous in the great Greek fabulist.
From Aesop's Fables Translated by George Fyler Townsend by Townsend, George Fyler
There appears in it, however, perhaps too much, and certainly more than in the other orations, of what Lord Monboddo calls concinnity.
From History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume II by Dunlop, John
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