Hypertext Webster Gateway: "comeliness"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

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.

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

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

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