Meaning of Suavity | Babel Free

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

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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