suavityn.

c1450 Mirour Saluacioun (1888) 144 There, is alle suavitee delitable to touching.

a1513 H. Bradshaw Lyfe St. Werburge (1521) i. xxxii. sig. l.iiii Suche a suauite and fragrant odoure Ascended from the corps.

a1513 H. Bradshaw Lyfe St. Werburge (1521) ii. xxiii. sig. r.viii O redolent rose repleit with suauite.

1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica vii. vii. 351 Rachel..desired them [sc. mandrakes] for rarity, pulchritude or suavity . View more context for this quotation

1658 R. White tr. K. Digby Late Disc. Cure Wounds (1660) 51 The smell of beans..is a smell that hath a suavity with it.

1661 R. Boyle Some Considerations Style Script. 253 Of both their Suavities [viz. of God's word and of honey], Experience gives much Adventageouser Notions than Descriptions can.

1614 J. Davies Commend. Poems (1878) 10/1 Musickes haters haue no Forme, or Soule: For, had they Soules produc't in Harmony, They would be rauisht with her Suauity.

1647 J. Howell New Vol. of Lett. 159 Touching her [sc. the Greek tongue's] degeneration from her primitive suavity and elegance.

1678 R. Cudworth True Intellect. Syst. Universe i. iv. 296 Plato does..very much commend the Orphick Hymns, for their Suavity and Deliciousness.

a1821 V. Knox Ess. cv, in Wks. (1824) I. 517 I know not whether the curiosa felicitas..may not be said to consist in delicacy of sentiment and suavity of expression.

1594 T. Nashe Terrors of Night in Wks. (Grosart) III. 268 One..who in the midst of his paine falls delighted asleepe, and in that suauitie of slumber surrenders the ghost.

1619 J. Hales Let. 1 Jan. 53 in Golden Remains (1659) The suavity of their Doctrine in the word Peace and Good things.

1656 Earl of Monmouth tr. T. Boccalini Ragguagli di Parnasso (1674) ii. lix. 211 To taste the sweet of Government, the suavity of Command.

1669 T. Gale Court of Gentiles: Pt. I iii. i. 18 The delights or suavities, which attend the teachings of Poesie.

1823 J. Badcock Domest. Amusem. 63 The common suavities of social life.

1860 O. W. Holmes Professor at Breakfast-table vi. 183 The elegances and suavities of life.

c1610–15 Life St. Sexburge in C. Horstmann Lives Women Saints (1886) 55 Her bodie yielding a most fragrant odour..a greate token of her ghostlie suauitie.]

a1617 P. Baynes Christian Lett. (1620) sig. L8 I thanke God in Christ, sustentation I haue,..but suauities spirituall I taste not any.

1648 R. Boyle Some Motives Love of God (1659) 52 The unimaginable suavity, that the fixing of ones Love on God, is able to blesse the Soul with.

1671 A. Woodhead tr. Life St. Teresa i. xv. 93 That, which the Soul is to do..is only to rest with suavity, and without noyse.

a1680 J. Glanvill Some Disc. (1681) i. 55 The conceit of our special dearness to God..that goes no further than to some suavities, and pleasant fancies within our selves.

1815 W. H. Ireland Scribbleomania 252 Histories..which uniformly tend to inculcate suavity of manners.

1819 W. Scott Bride of Lammermoor ii, in Tales of my Landlord 3rd Ser. III. 18 ‘Lucy, my love,’ she added, with that singular combination of suavity of tone and pointed energy which we have already noticed.

1847 C. Dickens Dombey & Son (1848) xxix. 296 These words, delivered with a cutting suavity.

1878 W. Black Green Pastures iii Sometimes a flash of vehement enthusiasm..would break through the suavity of manner which some considered to be just a trifle too supercilious.

1852 H. B. Stowe Uncle Tom's Cabin (U.K. ed.) viii Cajoled by the attentions of an electioneering politician with more ease than Aunt Chloe was won over by Master Sam's suavities.