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Significados de preciousness em inglês

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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"
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His worst fault, however, lies in his obscurity and preciosity of diction.
Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal
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Of mere preciosity and phrase-making without any special obscurity examples abound.
Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal
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Her very daintiness and preciosity of speech indicated it.
The Blazed Trail
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The handling throughout workmanlike, with some four or five touches of preciosity, which I regret.
The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson — Volume 1
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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.

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