Definition of Preceosity
Pre`ci*os"i*ty (?), n.; pl. -
ties (#). [F. préciosité, OF. also
precieuseté.] Fastidious refinement, esp. in
language; specif., the affected purism and sententiousness
characteristic of the French précieuses of the 17th
century.
He had the fastidiousness, the preciosity, the
love of archaisms, of your true decadent. L.
Douglas.
Pre`ci*os"i*ty (?), n.
Preciousness; something precious. [Obs.] Sir T.
Browne.
Pre`ci*os"i*ty (?), n.; pl. -
ties (#). [F. préciosité, OF. also
precieuseté.] Fastidious refinement, esp. in
language; specif., the affected purism and sententiousness
characteristic of the French précieuses of the 17th
century.
He had the fastidiousness, the preciosity, the
love of archaisms, of your true decadent. L.
Douglas.
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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