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

None of the stories are precisely those of Aesop, and none have the concinnity, terseness, and unmistakable deduction of the lesson intended to be taught by the fable, so conspicuous in the great Greek fabulist.

From Aesop's Fables Translated by George Fyler Townsend by Townsend, George Fyler

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

The ancient Orators, a considerable time before it was practised and recommended by Isocrates, were fond of using it; and particularly Gorgias, whose measured cadences are generally owing to the mere concinnity of his language.

From Cicero's Brutus or History of Famous Orators; also His Orator, or Accomplished Speaker. by Jones, E.