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comeliness|ˈkʌmlɪnɪs|
[f. comely a. + -ness.]
The quality of being comely.
1. Pleasing appearance; gracefulness or beauty of form; handsomeness. (In mod. use generally denoting a homelier style of beauty: cf. comely a.)
c1369Chaucer Dethe Blaunche 827 So had she Surmountede hem al of beaute Of maner and of comelynesse. 1555Eden Decades W. Ind. (Arb.) 56 Bodies of natural bewtie & comelynesse. 1611Bible Isa. liii. 2 Hee hath no forme nor comelinesse. 1748Richardson Clarissa I. ii. 7 She was always thought comely, and comeliness..having not so much to lose as beauty had, would hold, when that would evaporate. 1836Hor. Smith Tin Trump. (1876) 353 Moral beauty..is as superior to superficial comeliness as mind is to matter. 1846Prescott Ferd. & Is. I. iii. 180 Distinguished by the comeliness of his person.
2. Suitableness, becomingness, seemliness, decency, propriety.
1399Langl. Rich. Redeles iii. 184 Ffor curtesie, ffor comlynesse, ne ffor his kynde herte. c1440Promp. Parv. 89 Comlyness or seemelynesse, decencia. 1561J. Daus tr. Bullinger on Apoc. (1573) 308 Agaynst the comlynes of sincere religion. 1625Bacon Ess., Friendship (Arb.) 181 How many Things are there, which a Man cannot, with any Face or Comelines, say or doe Himselfe? 1645Ussher Body Div. (1647) 225 What is fasting? An abstinence for a time from all the commodities and pleasures of this life, so far as comelinesse and necessity will suffer. 1809W. Irving Knickerb. iii. iv. (1849) 164 To conduct themselves with incredible sobriety and comeliness. |