Crossword-Solution: PRECIOSITY
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Preciosity | n. | Preciousness; something precious. |
We have 3 clues for the answer “PRECIOSITY”
| Clue | Answers |
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| the quality of being fastidious or excessively refined | 1 answer |
| Affectation | 72 answers |
| Peculiarity | 76 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
The superficial contents of any figure; the surface included
within any given lines; superficial extent; as, the area of a square or
a triangle.
Hint 2 anagram
AARE
Hint 3 another clue
CERTAIN BRAIN SIZE
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Sentences with PRECIOSITY (5)
Wilde's prose is distinguished by its extraordinary ease and clarity, and by the absence--very singular in his case--of the preciosity which he admired too much in other writers, and advocated with over-emphasis.
And the Pope, hearing of this, had to send him a valuable Gift, which you may see some day.' Nussler did, one day, see this preciosity: a Crucifix, ebony bordered with gold, and the Body all of that metal, on the smallest of altars,--in Walrave's bedroom.
Just as exaggeration of the sublime leads to inflation, and affectation of nobleness to preciosity, in the same manner affectation of grace ends in coquetry, and that of dignity to stiff solemnity, false gravity.
Consciously, no one can achieve the act of love on earth as a completed thing of grace, with whatever delirium of delight, with whatever ingenious preciosity, we go through its process.
Lyly, who corresponds approximately to the French Voiture, created _euphemism_: that is, witty preciosity.