| 释义 |
sightliness|ˈsaɪtlɪnɪs|
[f. next.]
Comeliness, handsomeness, beauty.
1561T. Hoby tr. Castiglione's Courtyer i. A 2 b, A Citye in fourme of a palaice, and that not onelye with ordinarie matters,..but also for sightlynesse. 1598R. Barckley Felic. Man (1631) 658 The delectible shew and sightliness of the tree. 1642Fuller Holy & Prof. St. iv. 303 Thus glasse-eyes may be used, though not for seeing but for sightlinesse. 1740–1Richardson Pamela (1824) I. xv. 253, I, a poor girl, who..had only a kind of imputed sightliness of person. 1767T. Boston Crook in Lot (1805) 11 Faith will discover a hidden sightliness in it, under a very unsightly outward appearance. 1846Trench Mirac. xviii. (1862) 313 Much that for its little sightliness was nothing accounted of, shall prove true metal. a1878Sir G. Scott Lect. Archit. (1879) II. 170 Another mode of giving sightliness to the squared dome. |