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speciosity Now rare.|spiːʃɪˈɒsɪtɪ|
Also 5 specioustee, 6–7 speciositie.
[ad. late L. speciōsitās (= F. spéciosité, It. speziosità, Sp. especiosidad, Pg. especiosidade) beauty, good appearance or looks, f. speciōsus specious a.: see -ity.]
†1. The quality of being beautiful; beauty, fair or lovely appearance. Also, a beautiful thing. Obs.
a1470Harding Chron. ccvii, He had..Iewelles in chestes, and stones of precioustee, And other Marchauntes in specioustee. 1535Stewart Cron. Scot. I. 107 The palice [that] proper wes to se, Poleist perfyte with all speciositie. 1627Sybthorpe Apost. Obed. 25 Although the common-weale be safest and most beautifull, when it is at unitie in it selfe,..yet, that the speciositie may the better appeare to us, wee must survey it by particulars. 1660H. More Myst. Godl. iv. xii. 128 The Transfiguration of his person on the top of mount Tabor into so great a glory as all the speciosities of the world could not equalize. 1731Bailey (vol. II), Speciousness, Speciosity, fairness of show and appearance.
2. The quality of being specious; speciousness.
1608T. James Apol. Wyclif 33 He preached against the pretiosity, speciosity, and miraculositie, and sundry other sophistications about images.
1839Carlyle Chartism v, Speciosity in all departments usurps the place of reality..; instead of performance, there is appearance of performance. 1851― Sterling i. v. (1872) 35 Professions, built so largely on speciosity instead of performance.
b. pl. Specious actions, promises, etc.
1837Carlyle Fr. Rev. ii. v. i, Poor Paris;..enveloped in speciosities, in falsehood which knows itself false. 1858― Fredk. Gt. i. i. I. 11 The shops declining to take hypocrisies and speciosities any farther. |