preciosity
noun
fastidious or carefully affected refinement, as in language, style, or taste.
preciosities
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pluralof preciosity.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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From England came the apocalyptic chants of Edith Sitwell, who had journeyed a long way from her early preciosities.
From Time Magazine Archive
Rare privilege, truly, when its preciosities are oiled with mellifluous King's English, even though by spurious engineers.
From Time Magazine Archive
She also published Lycidus, a Voyage from the Island of Love, returning to the Abbé Tallemant’s dainty preciosities.
From The Works of Aphra Behn, Volume I by Montague Summers
On other days, he was lifted to the seventh heaven by an enthusiastic genteel mob, who followed every deft turn of expression with shouts and gestures of delight, and far-fetched preciosities of approbation.
From Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius by Samuel Dill
Gotzkowsky's House was like a general storeroom for everybody's preciosities; his time, means, self were the refuge of all the needy.
From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 20 by Thomas Carlyle
