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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Rare privilege, truly, when its preciosities are oiled with mellifluous King's English, even though by spurious engineers.
From Time Magazine Archive
From England came the apocalyptic chants of Edith Sitwell, who had journeyed a long way from her early preciosities.
From Time Magazine Archive
Art is not a "hole and corner" thing, an affair of professional preciosities and discriminations, a set of tiresome rules to be learned by rote.
From Suspended Judgments Essays on Books and Sensations by John Cowper Powys
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
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
