Suavity

Definitions

1. The quality of being sweet or pleasing to the mind; agreeableness; pleasantness
   countable, uncountable
2. The quality of being suave.
   countable, uncountable
3. Sweetness or agreeableness to the senses, especially of taste and odour.
   countable, obsolete, uncountable

Equivalents

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Examples

“suavity of manners”

“suavity of language, conversation, or address”

“[N]othing, not even the crude curves of the railway, can utterly deform the suavity of contour of one bay after another along the whole reach⟳ of the Riviera.”

“[T]he brothers’ gowns and broad straw hats were hanging up, each with his religious name⟳ upon a board⟳,—names full of legendary suavity and interest⟳, such as Basil, Hilarion, Raphael, or Pacifique; […]”

“Macavity, Macavity, there’s no one like⟳ Macavity, There never was a Cat of such deceitfulness and suavity.”

“Whan this ſayd monument diſcouered was / Suche a ſuauite and fragrant odoure / Aſcended from the corps by ſingular grace / Paſſyng all worldly ſwetnes and ſauour / That all there present⟳ that day and hour / Suppoſed they had ben / in the felicite / Of erthely paradiſe / without ambiguite.”

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