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Definition of Lissomeness
1. Noun. The gracefulness of a person or animal that is flexible and supple.
Generic synonyms: Gracefulness
Derivative terms: Lissome, Lithe, Supple
Definition of Lissomeness
1. [n -ES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Lissomeness
Literary usage of Lissomeness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Cambridge History of English Literature by Adolphus William Ward, Alfred Rayney Waller (1916)
"... in lissomeness, is of high quality, and supplies numerous striking short
passages somewhat resembling Scott's "old play" fragment-mottoes. ..."
2. The Indebtedness of Chaucer's Works to the Italian Works of Boccaccio: (a by Hubertis Maurice Cummings (1916)
"The lissomeness of the ladies of the Breton lays of Marie de France clings to
her, the perfume of chivalric courts breathes about her. ..."
3. Corrected Impressions: Essays on Victorian Writers by George Saintsbury (1895)
"... to have palpably stiffened and dulled his once marvellous lissomeness and
brilliancy of thought, and which is now abandoned to cheap beginners in ..."
4. English Prose: Selections by Henry Craik (1894)
"But these last were the supreme effect of their own individual genius : neither
the impetuous flow of Dryden's prose, nor the easy lissomeness of Swift's, ..."
5. Dancing by Frazer (Lily Grove), Percy Macquoid (1895)
"She then began the dance, beating the air with her tambourine—in all her movements
showing a grace, a lissomeness, a blending of modesty and abandon, ..."
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