Excellence of manners or social conduct

Usage examples of graciousness.

Softly, impalpably, with both the graciousness of a host and the determinedness of an intruder who will not be gainsaid, the first rays of morning light filtered into the mist.

Miss Dinmont was in the now crowded court again, and this time there was no doubt of her graciousness to Grant.

Fraisier shrewdly, making his bow to the Presidente with as much graciousness as his countenance could exhibit.

In times of which only the chronicles could tell, the star-crowned Virgin on its tower used to smile, as a mother, from out her golden mantle, deep, deep down upon the pious red rooves and the only companions of her graciousness were the doves which used to nest in the gargoyles of the water-spouts and the bells which were called after the four archangels and of which Saint Michael was the most magnificent.

Most were not the antebellum mansions one thought of when envisioning southern architecture, but aped that graciousness and were better for it.

With overcooked graciousness, Brummel introduced the new or possibly new faces.

She stood up, swathed in her towel, Venus arising from the depths, and bowed with regal graciousness towards the audience, Madame Melba taking her final farewell of Covent Garden.

The Regent received me with all the graciousness and complaisance for which he was so remarkable.

He and the others had been the kahan's guests for three days now, enjoying his hospitality and the graciousness of his people, and while the palace seemed to be open to everyone, neither Kadar nor any of his underlings ever ventured from its confines.

My late niece had an air of dignity which became her to admiration, and received her future husband with great graciousness.

She was graciousness itself, and the young Weddeerogh, her male cub, awaited outside the door to guide Hrrto back to the bay, and his transport back to Rraladoona.

So she told him now, with as much graciousness as she could command, that she fully realized her debt, and when, encouraged, he spoke of his reward, she smiled upon him as might a girl smile upon too impetuous a wooer whose impetuosity she deprecates yet cannot wholly withstand.

But, because of the added graciousness and warmth of his mother the Earthwoman, the boy lacked the autocratic manner of the great Kings of the past.

Titus Caesar, famous for his graciousness, congratulated Camillus Verus, Petronius Longus, me.

The trend had started back in the twentieth century, more than two hundred years before, when men moved to country homes to get fresh air and elbow room and a graciousness in life that communal existence, in its strictest sense, never had given them.