elegancy

American  

[el-i-guhn-see] / ˈɛl ɪ gən si /

noun

elegancies plural

1. elegance.

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Other Word Forms

Derived Forms

• hyperelegancy
  noun
• superelegancy
  noun

Inflected Forms

Nouns

• elegancies
  plural

Etymology

Origin of elegancy

From the Latin word ēlegantia, dating back to 1525–35. See elegant, -ancy

Example Sentences

Never did the captain sacrifice force to elegancy of expression.

From The Land of Frozen Suns by Sinclair, Bertrand W.

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

Altogether Chorillos is a very unpretending and altogether uncomfortable place, in which there is little room for elegancy or self-assertion, the President of the Republic himself occupying a wretched, dirty Rancho.

From Narrative of the Circumnavigation of the Globe by the Austrian Frigate Novara, Volume III (Commodore B. Von Wullerstorf-Urbair,) Undertaken by Order of the Imperial Government in the Years 1857, 1858, & 1859, Under the Immediate Auspices of His I. and R. Highness the Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian, Commander-In-Chief of the Austrian Navy. by Scherzer, Karl Ritter von

The ceiling is plastered with massive gilding, the effect of which is rather cumbrous than ornamental; "not graced with elegancy, but daubed with cost."

From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 267, August 4, 1827 by Various

Wit, ingenuity, and learning in verse; even elegancy itself, though that comes nearest, are one thing.

From A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century by Beers, Henry A. (Henry Augustin)