concinnity

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Novak was delighted by this concinnity, and even more delighted by the treatments on offer that day at the storefront franchise spa concept.

From New York Times • Oct. 12, 2021

The Wintersian virtue of concinnity become a principle of governance:

From The New Yorker • Mar. 11, 2019

The tendency of his genius had never been, and at the end was less than ever, in the direction of concinnity.

From Aspects and Impressions by Gosse, Edmund

There appears in it, however, perhaps too much, and certainly more than in the other orations, of what Lord Monboddo calls concinnity.

From History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume II by Dunlop, John

We know not whether to admire most the genial, fresh, and discursive concinnity of the author, or his playful fancy, weird imagination, and compass of style, at once both objective and subjective….

From The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell by Lowell, James Russell