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ornateness
noun as in elegance
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noun as in urbanity
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- breeding
- charm
- class
- courtliness
- cultivation
- culture
- delicacy
- dignity
- discernment
- distinction
- exquisiteness
- felicity
- gentility
- grace
- gracefulness
- grandeur
- lushness
- luxury
- magnificence
- nicety
- nobility
- noblesse
- polish
- politeness
- propriety
- purity
- refinement
- restraint
- rhythm
- sophistication
- splendor
- style
- sumptuousness
- symmetry
- tastefulness
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Example Sentences
The emphasis in these rhetorics on style is the same: ornateness in communication is achieved through using the figures.
In this group beauty of song is developed many times oftener than is especial ornateness of plumage.
It is a sound policy to avoid the ornateness that frequently accompanies a large and unskillfully planned area.
The quality of the belt to which it is attached and the ornateness of the plate itself indicate that it was made for an officer.
Tristrem repeated, utterly unimpressed by the ornateness of the novelist's remarks.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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