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Comeliness

Comeliness \Come"li*ness\, n. [See Comely.] The quality or state of being comely.

Comeliness is a disposing fair Of things and actions in fit time and place.
--Sir J. Davies.

Strength, comeliness of shape, or amplest merit.
--Milton.

Comeliness signifies something less forcible than beauty, less elegant than grace, and less light than prettiness.
--Johnson.

Wiktionary
comeliness

n. beauty, attractiveness

WordNet
comeliness

n. the quality of being good looking and attractive [syn: fairness, loveliness, beauteousness]

Usage examples of "comeliness".

He was of the comeliness for which all the Cherkesses are noted, male as well as female, and he was trying now to exhibit the good manners Artemidorus taught all his charges.

But I say, Congrio, yon homunculus--yon pigmy assailant of my cranes--yon pert-tongued neophyte of the kitchen, was there aught but insolence on his tongue when he maligned the comeliness of my sweetmeat shapes?

There was somewhat in the open countenance and courteous behaviour of Jones which, being accompanied with much comeliness of person, greatly recommended him at first to every beholder.

One of these, a youth of coal-black comeliness, was preaching with the most violent gesticulations, frequently springing high from the ground, and clapping his hands over his head.

Pittsburgh waterfront is its value for recreation and as an element of civic comeliness and self-respect.

So that if a virtuous soul have but a little comeliness, he will be content to love and tend him, and will search out and bring to the birth thoughts which may improve the young, until he is compelled to contemplate and see the beauty of institutions and laws, and to understand that the beauty of them all is of one family, and that personal beauty is a trifle.

How he has improved in comeliness in five-and-twenty year and in the noble art of inflating his facts.

Each, in truth, felt that interest in the other which similarity of age, condition, mutual comeliness, and their novel situation would be likely to inspire in the young and ingenuous.

Not that her comeliness bade fair ever to prove the cause of any real excitement.

Atop his physical comeliness, the man wore an air of moodiness about him, and a certain degree of mysticism, that, while complementing his sensitive face, seemed at odds with his warrior bearing and the hardness of his hands.

Now, the man of pigments was going to be shown a real picture, a living model of strength and comeliness, a thing to feast the eyes on, a picture that exhibited new pose and action with every shifting minute, instead of standing glued into one unvarying attitude between the four walls of a frame.

Poor comfort she had of her comeliness And the bird sings over the roses.

Mansour: 'It is the favour of man which giveth beauty and comeliness to woman, as the stream glitters no longer when the sun ceaseth to shine.

In the dim space of the choir, partially shut off from the nave of the church by the parish altar and lit only by the constant lamp and the candles on the high altar, the brothers in their stalls showed like carven copies, in this twilight without age or youth, comeliness or homeliness, so many matched shadows.