comeliness

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Comeliness becomes every day more and more an affair of chemistry.

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 12, No. 32, November, 1873 by Various

The Comeliness of Person, and Decency of Behaviour, add infinite Weight to what is pronounced by any one.

From The Spectator, Volume 2. by Addison, Joseph

Nothing of all these, said he; but his Person was comely, which made his Age appear such as carried in it much Comeliness, but no Deformity.

From Colloquies of Erasmus, Volume I. by Erasmus, Desiderius

"They that can see any Virtue or Comeliness in a Charles Stuart," says Father, "can hardly be expected to acknowledge the rugged Merits of a plain Republican."

From Mary Powell & Deborah's Diary by Manning, Anne