"formosity" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

IPA: /fɔːˈmɒsɪti/ [Received-Pronunciation], /fɔɹˈmɑsɪti/ [General-American]
Rhymes: -ɒsɪti Etymology: From Late Middle English formosite, formosyte, from Old French formosité, from Latin fōrmōsitās (“beauty”). Cognate to French formosité, Scots formosite. Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|formosite}} Middle English formosite, {{der|en|fro|formosité}} Old French formosité, {{der|en|la|fōrmōsitās||beauty}} Latin fōrmōsitās (“beauty”), {{cog|fr|formosité}} French formosité, {{cog|sco|formosite}} Scots formosite Head templates: {{en-noun|-}} formosity (uncountable)
  1. (dated) Beauty. Tags: dated, uncountable
    Sense id: en-formosity-en-noun-67o5ZScu Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries
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          "ref": "1602, John Davies [i.e., John Davies of Hereford], Mirum in modum. A Glimpſe of Gods Glorie and the Soules Shape, London: […] [Valentine Simmes] for VVilliam Aspley, page 38:",
          "text": "In vaine therefore it is to beate our braines,\nTo frame that Forme, that fram'd all Formes that are,\nAnd yet himſelfe a formeleſſe Forme remaines,\nThat in Formoſity is past compare,\nHis glory is ſo great, his grace ſo rare!",
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          "ref": "1620, William Basse, A Helpe to Discovrse. Or a Miſcelany of Merriment, London: […] N. O. for Leonard Becker, page 9:",
          "text": "A. The Schoolemen affirme; God for his exceeding formoſity and beauty,Sinne for the exceeding deformitie and loathſomneſſe , the firſt matter for the exceeding informitie and inexiſtency.",
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          "ref": "1629, Theophilus Taylor, The Mappe of Moſes, or, a Gvide for Governovrs, London: […] Thomas Harper, page 3:",
          "text": "4 Louingly alike affianced and eſpouſed: Moſes married Zipporah the daughter of Iethro the Ethiopian,and therefore blacke, yet fruitfull, for ſhe bare vnto Moſes two ſons, Gerſhon and Eleaſer : ſo Chriſt hath affianced himſelfe to the Church; who if ſhe want externall formoſity, yet not fecundity, for ſhe bringeth forth many children vnto God.",
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          "ref": "1647, Robert Baron, Εροτεπαιγνnοn of the Cyprian Academy, London: […] W. W., page 8:",
          "text": "[…] he left not many trees behind him, before he diſcovered mounted upon a black Palfrey a Damſell of exquiſite formoſity, urged with ſorrow making towards him : […]",
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          "text": "His own education was ordinary, his breeding provincially constricted: but he had (with singular personal formosity) an extraordinary faculty of appreciation and an inchanting sense of obligation.",
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        "(dated) Beauty."
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