Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The state or quality of being beauteous; beauty.

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  • noun The state or quality of being beauteous.

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  • noun the quality of being good looking and attractive

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Examples

  • And then the critic, if in a virtuous mood, may indulge in some fine writing regarding the holy beauteousness of maternal affection.

    The Newcomes 2006

  • My toots and Gerry Butler together would have wiped out disease and destruction and lousy television programming with a mere dual glance of manly beauteousness.

    IMAGE: "Beauty Will Save The World" Mirtika 2006

  • And away he strode impetuous towards where they stood, the dark and the fair, with arms entwined, viewing each other's beauteousness glad-eyed.

    Peregrine's Progress Jeffery Farnol 1915

  • So, the more her life by its comely ordering had endeared her to mankind, pity also for her death, for the flower of her youth, and for a beauteousness which in death, it may be, showed the more resplendently than in life, did breed in the heart the smarting of great desire.

    Earthwork out of Tuscany Being Impressions and Translations of Maurice Hewlett Maurice Hewlett 1892

  • Yes, to me just one thing good -- I came to know you, your Lady and the beauteousness of Bethel.

    Letters of Franklin K. Lane Franklin Knight Lane 1892

  • In a word -- not to allude to the historical emblem of the dove that flew back to the ark, bearing in its mouth the olive leaf of peace (Ge 8: 11) -- when we read (Ps 68: 13), "Ye shall be as the wings of a dove covered with silver, and her feathers with yellow gold," it is beauteousness that is thus held forth.

    Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible 1871

  • Then they handed the goblet to each other, and drank till they were on fire with the joy of things, and life blushed beauteousness.

    The Shaving of Shagpat; an Arabian entertainment — Volume 3 George Meredith 1868

  • Then they handed the goblet to each other, and drank till they were on fire with the joy of things, and life blushed beauteousness.

    The Shaving of Shagpat; an Arabian entertainment — Complete George Meredith 1868

  • Then they handed the goblet to each other, and drank till they were on fire with the joy of things, and life blushed beauteousness.

    Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868

  • And then the critic, if in a virtuous mood, may indulge in some fine writing regarding the holy beauteousness of maternal affection.

    The Newcomes William Makepeace Thackeray 1837

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