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Meanings of preciousness in English

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preciositat

The quality of being fastidious or excessively refined.

        preciositat

        The positive quality of being precious and beyond value.

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              Examples for "preciosity"
              Examples for "preciosity"
              1
              His worst fault, however, lies in his obscurity and preciosity of diction.
              Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal
              2
              Of mere preciosity and phrase-making without any special obscurity examples abound.
              Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal
              3
              Her very daintiness and preciosity of speech indicated it.
              The Blazed Trail
              4
              The handling throughout workmanlike, with some four or five touches of preciosity, which I regret.
              The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson — Volume 1
              5
              Those five months had been a microcosm of the era itself-naive, flirtatious, formal to the point of preciosity, and romantic.
              Carrion comfort

              The quality possessed by something with a great price or value.

                    Usage of preciousness in English
                    1
                    A sense of the preciousness of the despised thing wakes in him.
                    Expositions of Holy Scripture: Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus and Nu...
                    2
                    A tale for the young, illustrative of the preciousness of Scripture promises.
                    Hunter's Marjory / A Story for Girls
                    3
                    Moreover they were taught industry, self-denial, benevolence, and the preciousness of time.
                    History Of The Missions Of The American Board Of Commissioners F...
                    4
                    Underneath all the preciousness, his movements were careful, his face too still.
                    Sister Mine
                    5
                    There is a certain precociousness and preciousness about young children's books.
                    Reuters
                    6
                    Solskjær has been at pains to ensure new arrivals bring positivity, not preciousness.
                    The Guardian
                    7
                    That preciousness led to a kind of curation you don't really see anymore.
                    Wired
                    8
                    It teaches the preciousness of His individual servants in God's eyes.
                    Expositions of Holy Scripture / Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, Rut...
                    9
                    O God, my soul doth magnify thee for the preciousness of these thoughts.
                    Food for the Lambs; or, Helps for Young Christians
                    10
                    Other people than Babylonian sculptors think that bigness is greatness, and dearness preciousness.
                    Expositions of Holy Scripture / Ezekiel, Daniel, and the Minor P...
                    11
                    From the preciousness of sensation to the harmfulness of being attached to it.
                    Petals from the sky
                    12
                    Unfortunately these precious beings had suffered from their very preciousness.
                    Last and First Men
                    13
                    Endless strings of pearls do not reach the preciousness of One pearl of price.
                    Expositions of Holy Scripture: Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus and Nu...
                    14
                    But we must not on this account question the preciousness of the gift itself.
                    Mrs. Whittelsey's Magazine for Mothers and Daughters, Volume 3
                    15
                    Yet this night was all about the preciousness of Pulisic.
                    The Guardian
                    16
                    With her ingrained feeling of the preciousness of money Alice did not believe him.
                    There & Back
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                    Preciousness through the time
                    Preciousness across language varieties
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