Crossword-Solution: CONCINNITY
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Concinnity | n. | Internal harmony or fitness; mutual adaptation of parts; elegance; -- used chiefly of style of discourse. |
We have 4 clues for the answer “CONCINNITY”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Harmony; studied elegance, as of literary style. | 1 answer |
| fluency | 28 answers |
| elaboration | 50 answers |
| Harmony | 80 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with CONCINNITY (5)
None of the stories are precisely those of Aesop, and none have the concinnity, terseness, and unmistakable deduction of the lesson intended to be taught by the fable, so conspicuous in the great Greek fabulist.
Then coming to the pretty animal, as reason long since is fled to animals, you know, or indeed for the more modelising, or enamelling, or rather diamondising of your subject, you shall perceive the hypothesis, or galaxia, (whereof the meteors long since had their initial inceptions and notions,) to be merely Pythagorical, mathematical, and aristocratical -- For, look you, sir, there is ever a kind of concinnity and species -- Let us turn to our former discourse, for they mark us not.
There is no such writing as this in any of the works of Tacitus, who, though curt and concise, is always remarkable for concinnity and clearness of expression as well as for perspicuity and consecutiveness of idea.
This idea of the ancient tragic dance, is not solely formed upon our knowledge of the conformity before-mentioned; but is further collected from the name usually given to it, which was [Greek transliteration: Emmeleia] This word cannot well be translated into our language; but expresses all that grace and concinnity of motion, which the dignity of the choral song required.
But what can be more insipid, more frivolous, or more puerile, than that very concinnity of expression which he actually acquired?"--"_But still we wish to resemble the Attic Speakers_."--"Do so, by all means.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1966).