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‖ curiosa felicitas|kjʊərɪˈəʊsə fɛˈlɪsɪtæs|
[L. (Petronius Sat. cxviii), lit. ‘careful felicity’.]
A studied felicity of expression.
1752Chesterfield Let. 16 Mar. (1774) II. 229 The delicacy and curiosa felicitas of that poet [sc. Horace]. 1817Coleridge Biog. Lit. II. xxii. 168 The frequent curiosa felicitas of his [sc. Wordsworth's] diction. 1886F. Harrison Choice of Books i. iii. 61 Tennyson..has..a curiosa felicitas of phrase. 1908L. Johnson in Yeats & Johnson Poetry & Ireland 22 The singular charm, the curiosa felicitas, of Celtic style. 1933R. Tuve Seasons & Months iii. 79 The ‘Curiosa Felicitas’ which produces such ‘handsom Turns and apt Expressions’. |