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exquisiteness|ˈɛkskwɪzɪtnɪs|
[f. as prec. + -ness.]
The quality of being exquisite. a. Elaborateness, high degree of finish, perfectness of detail; now usually, delicate perfection, refined and perfect beauty. †b. Scrupulous care; nicety, fastidiousness. †c. Consummate skill. d. Of pleasure or pain: Refined degree, acuteness, intensity. e. Of the senses, taste, judgement, etc.: Delicate sensibility.
a.1599Sandys Europæ Spec. (1632) 18 The exquisitenesse [of their Religion consisting most] in an infinity of intricate dumb Ceremonies. a1691Boyle Fluidity & Firmness ii. Wks. 1744 I. 258/1 It is..difficult to procure..either glasses or marbles so much as approaching such an exquisiteness. 1823Lamb Elia Ser. i. xxii. (1860) 172 The exquisiteness of the fun. 1884Spectator 4 Oct. 1304/2 That dainty exquisiteness of utterance.
b.c1534tr. Pol. Verg. Eng. Hist., (Camden) I. 78 The same exquisitenes in banquitinge did from thence discend unto our time. 1673Marvell Reh. Transp. II. 370 Suetonius describes..Augustus his heriditary exquisiteness in that particular [propriety of language]. 1772Burke Corr. (1844) I. 377 In public life, it will be necessary to avoid the exquisiteness of an over-attention to small parts.
c.1622Markham Bk. War ii. v. 59 The [drummer's] exquisitenesse and skilfulnesse in his Art and Instrument.
d.1650Fuller Pisgah iii. xii. 345 The exquisiteness of his bodily temper, increasing the exquisiteness of his torment. 1750Carte Hist. Eng. II. 775 This man unable to bear the exquisiteness of the pain, accused..Sir Gervase Clyfton. 1832in Webster; and in mod. Dicts.
e.1650[see d]. 1664Power Exp. Philos. i. 26 Which will try the exquisiteness both of your Glass and Eye to behold. 1748Hartley Observ. Man. i. ii. 115 The different Degrees of Exquisiteness in the Sense of Feeling. 1790T. Bewick Quadrupeds (1807) 346 The Beagle..follows by the exquisiteness of its scent. |