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quaintness|ˈkweɪntnɪs|
Also 4 queyntness, 5 qwhayntnes, 6 queint-, queyntnesse.
[f. quaint a. + -ness.]
The quality or condition of being quaint, in various senses of the adj.
13..Coer de L. 1836 Al we should us venge fond, With queyntness and with strength of hond. 1483Cath. Angl. 296/1 A Qwhayntnes; vbi wylynes. 1593Drayton Eclogues ix. 133 The easie turnes and queyntnesse of the Song. 1603Florio Montaigne i. xxv. (1632) 80 All niceness and quaintnesse in clothing. 1620T. V. tr. Serm. du Moulin 11 A vulgar stile, destitute of quaintnesse and eloquence. 1702Engl. Theophrast. 234 Some make the quaintness of their wit, to consist in employing bad Instruments. 1765Blackstone Comm. I. 72 Coke; a man of infinite learning..though not a little infected with the pedantry and quaintness of the times he lived in. 1866Geo. Eliot F. Holt II. xxiii. 122 There's a simplicity and quaintness about the letter which rather pleases me.
b. A particular instance of this.
1642Milton Apol. Smect. xi. Wks. (1851) 313 Which..must needs be a strange quaintnesse in ordinary prayer. 1830H. N. Coleridge Grk. Poets (1834) 90 The indecorums and quaintnesses with which Homer may be reproached. 1832L. Hunt Poems Pref. 15 The occasional quaintnesses..which formerly disfigured the story of Rimini. |