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loveliness|ˈlʌvlɪnɪs|
[f. lovely a. + -ness.]
The quality of being lovely; exquisite beauty; † lovableness.
a1340Hampole Psalter cxlviii. 13 Til whaim na thynge may be like in fayrhed & luflynes & in kyndnes. 1535Coverdale Song Sol. vi. 4 Thou art pleasaunt (o my loue) euen as louelynesse itself. c1600Shakes. Sonn. iv, Unthrifty loveliness, why dost thou spend Upon thyself thy beauty's legacy? 1628Coke On Litt. 395 a, For a farewell to our jurisprudent, I wish unto him..the lovelinesse of temperance, the stability of fortitude [etc.]. 1657Baxter Agst. Quakers 2 A Catholick Love to all Christians..proportionable to their several degrees of loveliness. 1741Richardson Pamela I. Introd. 20 It adorn'd her with such unpresum'd Increase of Loveliness. 1816Byron Ch. Har. iii. xxiv, Cheeks..which but an hour ago Blush'd at the praise of their own loveliness. 1818Keats Endym. i. 2 A thing of beauty is a joy for ever: Its loveliness increases. 1884Pae Eustace 8 It was a face of surpassing loveliness.
b. pl. Lovely qualities, traits of loveliness. rare.
1790G. Walker Serm. II. xxi. 131 Let us adopt..into the rule of our lives, all the lovelinesses, which compose the character of the disciple of Christ. |