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Daintiness

Daintiness \Dain"ti*ness\, n. The quality of being dainty; nicety; niceness; elegance; delicacy; deliciousness; fastidiousness; squeamishness.

The daintiness and niceness of our captains
--Hakluyt.

More notorious for the daintiness of the provision . . . than for the massiveness of the dish.
--Hakewill.

The duke exeeded in the daintiness of his leg and foot, and the earl in the fine shape of his hands,
--Sir H. Wotton.

Wiktionary
daintiness

n. 1 The characteristic of being dainty. 2 A dainty behaviour or gesture.

WordNet
daintiness

n. the quality of being beautiful and delicate in appearance; "the daintiness of her touch"; "the fineness of her features" [syn: delicacy, fineness]

Usage examples of "daintiness".

Nell came out, nine-tenths of a ton of daintiness, and rumbled admonitorily at Nugget, who trailed her closely.

Should Danseuse step with her sweet daintiness into a pothole and break her leg, I shall be forced to purchase for myself some horrible biting mule.

One of the dishes being to her taste, she desired to be helped to it a second time, and she then cast her eyes round the circle of courtiers, probably in order to see if among them there was anyone to whom she owed an account of her daintiness.

Taffy had worked under Carrel--Little Billee handed sixty francs to the massier for his bienvenue--a lordly sum--and this liberality made a most favourable impression, and went far to destroy any little prejudice that might have been caused by the daintiness of his dress, the cleanliness of his person, and the politeness of his manners.

All the little feminine and contradictory daintinesses were nowhere to be seen.

They used the broad smooth river as a canvas, and painted on it every imaginable dream of color, from the mottled daintinesses and delicacies of the opal, all the way up, through cumulative intensities, to blinding purple and crimson conflagrations which were enchanting to the eye, but sharply tried it at the same time.

The entire family had been ecstatic at her birth, and she had been utterly doted on, with even the rough-and-tumble cousins fasci­nated by the daintiness and beauty of the newest Mac­kenzie.

The entire family had been ecstatic at her birth, and she had been utterly doted on, with even the rough-and-tumble cousins fasci­ nated by the daintiness and beauty of the newest Mac­ kenzie.

Lucie Waldon, as everybody knew, was a famous beauty, a marvel of charm and daintiness, slender, with big, soulful, wistful eyes.