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gracefulness|ˈgreɪsfʊlnɪs|
[f. as prec. + -ness.]
The quality or state of being graceful.
†1. Possession of graces; excellence of character. Obs.
1611Beaum. & Fl. King & No K. ii. i, If you Can find no disposition in yourself To sorrow, yet, by gracefulness in her, Find out the way, and by your reason weep.
†2. Graciousness, kindness, disposition to favour.
1640W. Mountague & Digby in Rushw. Hist. Coll. iii. (1692) I. 161 We shall certainly preserve his Gracefulness to us.
3. The quality of being graceful or elegant in form, proportions, movement, action, or expression. Originally in wider sense: Beauty, charm.
a1586Sidney Arcadia ii. (1633) 106 All her parts were decked with some particular ornament..her eyes with majestie, her countenance with gracefulnesse, her lips with lovelinesse. 1627Hakewill Apol. iii. viii. (1635) 293 Petrarchs Thuscan gracefulnesse. 1647Clarendon Hist. Reb. i. §14 The beauty and gracefulness..of his person. 1657R. Ligon Barbadoes (1673) 13 With far greater Majesty, and gracefulness, than I have seen Queen Anne, descend from the Chair of State, to dance. 1724Swift Use Irish Manuf. Wks. 1755 V. ii. 7 He..could..talk more than six, without either gracefulness, propriety or meaning. 1756Burke Subl. & B. iii. xxxii, Gracefulness is an idea not very different from beauty. 1815Chalmers Let. in Life (1851) II. 29 An unsoiled gracefulness and brilliancy of character. 1821Lamb Elia Ser. i. Grace bef. meat, These exercises..have little in them of grace or gracefulness. 1832Tennyson Eleänore 50 The luxuriant symmetry Of thy floating gracefulness. |