elegancy
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elegancies
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Origin of elegancy
From the Latin word ēlegantia, dating back to 1525–35. See elegant, -ancy
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As to the correctness and elegancy of your writing, attention to grammar does the one, and to the best authors, the other.
From The Young Gentleman and Lady's Monitor, and English Teacher's Assistant by John Hamilton Moore
“I took fust-class when at school in the States for elegancy and deportment.”
From The Wreck of the Nancy Bell Cast Away on Kerguelen Land by W. S. (Walter S.) Stacey
He speaks of 'his fine expression, elegancy, and quaintness,' and adds, 'he does so possess the soul with his graces that we forget those of his fable23.'
From The Roman Poets of the Republic by W. Y. Sellar
Lord Bacon, in his essay "Of Gardens," says, "When ages grow to civility and elegancy, men come to build stately sooner than to garden finely; as if gardening were the greater perfection."
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 66, April, 1863 by Various
Never did the captain sacrifice force to elegancy of expression.
From The Land of Frozen Suns by Bertrand W. Sinclair
Speeches were always in order—the smooth elegancies of a Davis, the high-flown outpourings of a Harvey, the salty blasts of a Dawes.
From Time Magazine Archive
He consorted with English lords, rode to hounds, learned to love foppery and all the elegancies, became a past master of dancing, of gambling, polite drinking and exquisite flirtation.
From Time Magazine Archive
There were no elegancies at their table—that too was borne in upon her along with the other disturbing things.
From Rose of Dutcher's Coolly by Hamlin Garland
He has been especially careful to avoid imitating the French and the elegancies of "that ceremonious nation."
From The English Novel in the Time of Shakespeare by J. J. Jusserand
The thousands of little elegancies which Europe, Asia, and Africa had contributed to minister to the voluptuous splendors of the regal mansion, were speedily transferred to the knapsacks of the soldiers.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol IV. No. XX. January, 1852. by Various
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