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Quality   /kwˈɑləti/   Listen
Quality

noun
(pl. qualities)
1.
An essential and distinguishing attribute of something or someone.
2.
A degree or grade of excellence or worth.  Synonyms: caliber, calibre.  "An executive of low caliber"
3.
A characteristic property that defines the apparent individual nature of something.  Synonyms: character, lineament.  "The radical character of our demands"
4.
(music) the distinctive property of a complex sound (a voice or noise or musical sound).  Synonyms: timber, timbre, tone.  "The muffled tones of the broken bell summoned them to meet"
5.
High social status.
adjective
1.
Of superior grade.  Synonyms: choice, prime, prize, select.  "Prime beef" , "Prize carnations" , "Quality paper" , "Select peaches"
2.
Of high social status.  "A quality family"



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"Quality" Quotes from Famous Books



... can only be classed and considered as such. They cannot be analyzed in detail or as a whole. In mathematics we have nine digits from which an infinite variety of combinations may be formed and solved by the deduction of the mind. Through them we may measure time, space, quality and quantity. ...
— 10,000 Dreams Interpreted • Gustavus Hindman Miller
... girl. Such words had their due effect; she immediately thought the evening pleasanter than she had found it before—her humble vanity was contented—she felt more obliged to the two young men for this simple praise than a true-quality heroine would have been for fifteen sonnets in celebration of her charms, and went to her chair in good humour with everybody, and perfectly satisfied with her share ...
— Persuasion • Jane Austen
... in the Frenchman's case with a sort of exaggeration of a dreamy kind, and with other dream-character, which reminds one of Borrow, and even of De Quincey. His absolute shamelessness is less unconnected with this dream-quality than may at first appear, and, as in all such cases, is made much less offensive by it. Could he ever have taken holiday from his day-long ...
— A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 - From the Beginning to 1800 • George Saintsbury
... Well, you have your excuses. But you can understand a poor fellow like me, who has been dragged through the slums and sewers of this wicked world for fifteen years and more, being very well content with any sort of good which I can light on, and not particular as to either quantity or quality." ...
— Two Years Ago, Volume I • Charles Kingsley
... white woman I had ever seen. I could not approach her as I was accustomed to approach other white ladies. My early instruction was all out of place. The crouching servility, usually so acceptable a quality in a slave, did not answer when manifested toward her. Her favor was not gained by it; she seemed to be disturbed by it. She did not deem it impudent or unmannerly for a slave to look her in the face. The meanest slave was put fully at ease in her presence, and none ...
— The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass - An American Slave • Frederick Douglass


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