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concinnity|kənˈsɪnɪtɪ|
[ad. L. concinnitās, -tāt-em, f. concinn-us: see concinne a. and -ity.]
1. Skilful and harmonious adaptation or fitting together of parts; harmony, congruity, consistency.
1531Elyot Gov. i. xx, In euery of the said daunsis, there was a concinnitie of meuing the foote and body. 1621Donne Serm. cxvii. V. 56 This world a frame of so much harmony, so much concinnity and conveniency. 1668Howe Bless. Righteous Wks. (1834) 252 Mere confusion, without the least concinnity or order. 1675Sir E. Sherburne Transl. Manilius Preface 7 Reasons..grounded upon the Concinnity of Time and Conformity of Study. 1835Kirby Hab. & Inst. Anim. (1852) II. 303 For the sake of concinnity of nomenclature.
b. (with pl.) A harmony, a congruity. † Mus. An imperfect concord: cf. concinnous discord.
1640G. Watts tr. Bacon's Adv. Learn. 317 What man despiseth not those that hunt after these deformities and concinnities. 1663Petty in Rigaud Corr. Sci. Men (1841) I. 103, I desire you to ask Lord Brounker..whether there be any thing in it but conjectures and concinnities. 1761Twining Recr. & Studies (1882) 17 Concords, and discords, and concinnities or imperfect concords.
2. Beauty of style produced by a skilful connexion of words and clauses; hence, more generally, studied beauty, elegance, neatness of literary or artistic style, etc.
1577Peacham Gard. Eloquence i. (T.), Cicero, who supposed figures to be named of the Grecians schemates, called them concinnitie..comprising all ornaments of speech under one name. 1697J. Serjeant Solid Philos. 299 Art is to polish our Notions, and bring them to Exactness and Concinnity. 1769Swinton in Phil. Trans. LX. 83 note, The Sicilians..excelled..in the elaborate concinnity of their money. 1865S. A. Brooke Life Robertson I. 187 The clearness and concinnity of the thought and its illustration. 1878Dowden Stud. Lit. 183 As great a master as Addison of concinnity in the playful. 1881Blackie Lay Serm. vi. 198 The graceful concinnity of Livy. 1886G. Allen Maimie's Sake xxiii, There was a neatness and concinnity about the way it worked that charmed her.
b. with pl. A studied beauty or elegance.
1866Motley Dutch Rep. ii. iii. 183 A discourse..not likely, with all its concinnities..to exert a soothing influence upon the people. |