suavity
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suavity
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From Middle English suavite, suavitee, suavyte, from Middle French suavité and its etymon Latin suāvitās.
noun suavities
- The quality of being sweet or pleasing to the mind; agreeableness; pleasantness suavity of manners
- The quality of being suave. Macavity, Macavity, there’s no one like Macavity, There never was a Cat of such deceitfulness and suavity.
- Sweetness or agreeableness to the senses, especially of taste and odour. Whan this ſayd monument diſcouered was / Suche a ſuauite and fragrant odoure / Aſcended from the corps by ſingular grace / Paſſyng all worldly ſwetnes and ſauour / That all there present that day and hour / Suppoſed they had ben / in the felicite / Of erthely paradiſe / without ambiguite.
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noun the quality of being sweet or pleasing to the mind
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