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elegancy|ˈɛlɪgənsɪ|
[ad. L. ēlegāntia: see -ancy.]
= elegance in its various senses.
1. = elegance 1. rare in mod. use.
1552Huloet, Elegancye, elegantia. 1622Peacham Compl. Gent. xii. (1634) 107 Most of them venerable for their antiquitie and elegancy. 1674Grew Anat. Plants i. §15 31 Two general advantages to the Leaves, Elegancy and Security. 1741Richardson Pamela (1824) I. 218 An elegancy ran through..persons as well as furniture. 1768A. Calcott Deluge 407 Neither do the fossil reliquiæ..yield in elegancy..to the medalic insignatures. 1838Emerson Milton Wks. (Bohn) III. 301 He threw himself, the flower of elegancy, on the side of the reeking conventicle.
b. humorously, in a form of address or title.
1824Southey Lett. (1856) III. 435 Your Elegancy will be looking for some news.
†2. Of language and style; = elegance 2. Obs.
1531Elyot Gov. (1834) 38 The elegancy of poets. 1572J. Jones Bathes of Bath i. 1 b, Tullie cheefe of all latyne elegancy. 1665Evelyn Mem. (1857) III. 162 Some judgment might be made concerning the elegancy of the style. 1746Chesterfield Lett. I. cv. 288 The purity, and the elegancy of his language.
3. concr. Something which is elegant; an instance or a kind of elegance; = elegance 5.
1587Golding De Mornay xxxiv. 547 They count Greek phrases for an elegancie. 1673Dryden Marr. à la Mode iv. ii. 305 Instruct your wife's woman in these elegancies. 1746–7Hervey Medit. & Contempl. (1818) 157 Art never attempts to equal their incomparable elegancies. 1823Lamb Elia Ser. i. xxii. (1865) 170 Palates not uninstructed in dietetical elegancies. 1874Pusey Lent. Serm. 41 We must..have this or that elegancy..according to our condition of life. |