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Definition of Preciosities
1. preciosity [n] - See also: preciosity
Lexicographical Neighbors of Preciosities
Literary usage of Preciosities
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Autobiography of Goethe: Truth and Poetry, from My Own Life by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1900)
"Such preciosities and wealth are a species of house-gods, towards which the crowd
devoutly and eagerly bend their eyes. When, now, such acquisitions are not ..."
2. The London Encyclopaedia, Or, Universal Dictionary of Science, Art by Thomas Tegg (1829)
"The index or forefinger was too naked whereto to commit their preciosities, and
hath the tuition of the thumb scarce unto the second joint. ..."
3. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1891)
"... doubtless afforded a field for the inventive genius of the fraud- mongers ;
but such "preciosities" were not exactly within the province of fine art, ..."
4. The Works of Thomas Carlyle: (complete). by Thomas Carlyle (1897)
"... in our day, "reckoned a safe place for the Saxon Archives and preciosities.
Impregnable to gunpowder artillery ; not to be had except by hunger. ..."
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