elegancy

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Delight, or pleasure, as when one is entertained, or ravished with music, painting, oratory, or any such elegancy, shews itself by the looks, gestures, and utterance of joy; but moderated.

From The Young Gentleman and Lady's Monitor, and English Teacher's Assistant by Moore, John Hamilton

His utterance was not exactly fraught with elegancy, but it expressed the feelings of all.

From The Boy Ranchers on Roaring River or Diamond X and the Chinese Smugglers by Hastings, Howard L. (Howard Livingston)

Lord Bacon, in his essay "Of Gardens," says, "When ages grow to civility and elegancy, men come to build stately sooner than to garden finely; as if gardening were the greater perfection."

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 66, April, 1863 by Various

Here are only numbers ratified; but for the elegancy, facility, and golden cadence of poesy, caret .

From Canterbury Pieces by Butler, Samuel

We were prettily received and entertained here, and an elegancy ran through every thing, persons as well as furniture, yet all plain.

From Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded by Richardson, Samuel