pretious

Definitions

Adjective. [B2]

Examples

“In pretious cloths his leg the chieftain ties, / Naught could the man from blood and fight⟳ debar.”

“How vain therfore is it, and how preposterous in the Canon Law, to have⟳ made such carefull provision against the impediment of carnall performance, and to have⟳ had no care about the unconversing inability of mind⟳, so defective to the purest and most sacred end⟳ of matrimony: and that the vessell of voluptuous enjoyment must be made good to him that has tak’n it upon trust⟳ without any caution, when as the mind⟳ from whence must flow⟳ the acts of peace and love⟳, a far more pretious mixture then the quintessence of an excrement, though it be found never so deficient and unable to performe the best duty of marriage in a cheerfull and agreeable conversation, shall be thought good anough, how ever flat and melancholious it be, and must serve⟳ though to the eternall disturbance and languishing of him that complains him.”

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