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Definition of Prettiness
1. Noun. The quality of being appealing in a delicate or graceful way (of a girl or young woman).
Definition of Prettiness
1. n. The quality or state of being pretty; -- used sometimes in a disparaging sense.
Definition of Prettiness
1. Noun. The quality of being pretty. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Prettiness
1. [n -ES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Prettiness
Literary usage of Prettiness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Lover's Lexicon: A Handbook for Novelists, Playwrights, Philosophers by Frederick Greenwood (1893)
"While Passion is put to the blush by the company it is forced to keep now-a-days,
prettiness carries its dainty little head in the highest quarters with a ..."
2. Rupert Brooke: A Memoir by Edward Howard Marsh (1922)
"... to favour and to prettiness.' So I'm extra keen about the places where I think
that thought and passion are, however clumsily, not so transmuted. ..."
3. Erasmus in Praise of Folly: With Portrait, Life of Erasmus, and His Epistle by Desiderius Erasmus (1922)
"... their prettiness does then soon decay, their briskness flags, their humors
stagnate, their jollity ceases, and their blood grows cold ; and the farther ..."
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