nicety

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But now we come to the great Nicety of all; that is to say, the Conscience of making a Conscience of using any Conscience at all: There's a Riddle for ye, Bumpkin.

From Citt and Bumpkin (1680) by L'Estrange, Sir Roger

And if at any Time he supp'd abroad with her, she sent them thither some Nicety or other, desiring them to be merry together.

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

No, scorn me, and despise me then, as lost to all the Glories of my Sex, and all that Nicety I’ve hitherto preserv’d.’

From The Works of Aphra Behn Volume V by Summers, Montague

That Neatness of which the Dutch are so fond, is cultivated to the greatest Nicety in this Village; and the Amsterdammers themselves cannot but own and admire it.

From The Memoirs of Charles-Lewis, Baron de Pollnitz, Volume II Being the Observations He Made in His Late Travels From Prussia thro' Germany, Italy, France, Flanders, Holland, England, &C. in Letters to His Friend. Discovering Not Only the Present State of the Chief Cities and Towns; but the Characters of the Principal Persons at the Several Courts. by P?llnitz, Karl Ludwig von

When the Birth approaches, with how much Nicety and Attention does she help the Chick to break its Prison?

From The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Addison, Joseph