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noun

Suavity n.

Sweetness to the taste. (Obs.)

The quality of being sweet or pleasing to the mind; agreeableness; softness; pleasantness; gentleness; urbanity; as, suavity of manners; suavity of language, conversation, or address.

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Etymology of 'Suavity'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Suavity" Quotes from Famous Books

... that Della Quercia was a formidable rival. Had the gates of the Baptistery been entrusted to his execution, we might have possessed a masterpiece of more heroic style. While smoothness and an almost voluptuous suavity of outline distinguish Ghiberti's naked Eve, gliding upheld by angels from the side of Adam at her Maker's bidding, Della Quercia's group, by the concentration of robust and rugged power, anticipates the style of Michael Angelo. Ghiberti treats the subject pictorially, placing his figures in a landscape, ...

— Renaissance in Italy Vol. 3 - The Fine Arts • John Addington Symonds

... like to go quite so far as that, sir," answered Mr. Craggie, with that diplomatic suavity which leads to postmasterships and seats in the General Court, and has even been known to oil a dull fellow's way into Congress. "I cannot take quite so hopeless a view of it. There are difficulties, but they must be overcome, ...

— The Stillwater Tragedy • Thomas Bailey Aldrich

... shoe of hers on the neck of rebellion, when she should have held out her soft white hand to make friends of her foes. Her beauty and her grace might have done much, had she inherited with the pride of the Medici something of their finesse and suavity. But he loved her, Denzil, forgave all her follies, her lavish spending and wasteful splendour. 'My wife is a bad housekeeper,' I heard him say once, when she was hanging upon his chair as he sat at the end of the Council table. The palace accounts were on the table—three thousand ...

— London Pride - Or When the World Was Younger • M. E. Braddon

... ladder swearing. He went straight to Evelyn. Before he opened the door he was all suavity ...

— The Pirate of Panama - A Tale of the Fight for Buried Treasure • William MacLeod Raine

... wish to interfere with you," the student answered. "My presence here is entirely accidental. All I ask is that you will have the extreme kindness to show me out through some side door." He spoke with great suavity, for the man was still pressing the tip of his dagger against the palm of his left hand, as though to assure himself of its sharpness, while his face preserved its ...

— The Captain of the Pole-Star and Other Tales • Arthur Conan Doyle

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