10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «FINICALNESS»
Discover the use of
finicalness in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
finicalness and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Early Voyages and Travels in the Levant
... Spanish mocador, French mouchoir ' You knew her little, and when her apron
was but a muckender.1 (Dr. Corbett's Marriage, 1658.) 5 Finicalness =
foppishness. " Gray's finicalness about expressions was excessive." (Hall, Mod.
Engl., p.
ORNAMENTATION. finalism 28. ATTITUDES. finalist 28. ATTITUDES. finalism.
finical 28. ATTITUDES, finicalness. finicalism 28. attitudes. finicality 28. attitudes,
finicalness. finicalness 28. ATTITUDES. finicism 28. ATTITUDES. Flacian 332.
Laurence Urdang, Anne Ryle, Tanya H. Lee, 1986
3
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine
... great canse to exult in the parallel. lVe should in all likelihood surpass them in
the show, but yield to them in the substantial practice of good. We should exhibit
more of finicalness, pretension, politeness, and all those arts and graces, which ...
... forms of behaviour: the other, of a most fastidious and recluse distance of
carriage, rather averse to sociability, but of the graver turn; nice, and elegant in
his person, dress, and behaviour, even to :1 degree of finicalness and effeminacy
.
Thomas Gray, John Mitford, 1836
5
Forty Sermons Upon Several Occasions
were no mean between affected finicalness and right down sot-did1cor. 14. 40.
ness. The Apostles iuxnyflya; 25 mld 1ass£n might make upthis 447., XJq-lza, rbir
great gn/f, and keep us from sinking either into Idalatry and superflition on the ...
Anthony Tuckney, Jonathan Tuckney, 1676
6
A Modern Greek and English Lexicon: To which is Prefixed an ...
... I I Fi nieally , enig- ni саёосротпти , т' _y61,1.äi;, pf; трбттсч mtgoŕísvcv.
Finicalness , бы. 1'; qgëupárng , 'rb «сейф? 'РёегццчTo`I'inish, д. ëv. re7\:|.o'vm,
...
7
includes "On modern gardening"
His works have no more merit than finicalness, and that not in perfection, can
give them. He afterwards published six historic pieces, from pictures in the royal
collection at Kensington, and the ceiling of the Banqueting-house ;2 but none of
his ...
8
The New Pocket Dicionary of the English and Spanish ...
... adv. precisamente Precíseness , s. precision — { finicalness ) , afectación [ loso
Precisian, a. s. escrupu- Precision, s. precision; exactitud Prccísive, a. exacto
Preclude, v. a. excluir Precocious , a. precoz Precocity, s. precocidad Precógitate,
...
Claude-Marie Gattel, 1803
9
A New Pocket Dictionary of the French and English Language ...
... s. beauté ; finesse, f. Finer, ajfineur, m. Finer, a. plus beau, âcc. Finery, s.
parure, l. от Finisse, finesse, f. Finger, s. doigt, m. — stall, s. poupée, f. Finger, va-
manier, toucher Finical, a. précieux, se. Finicalness. s. aßeLerie Finish, va. finir ...
10
The Yale literary magazine
There is a native dignity in their manner, which, although it may savor at times of
finicalness, betokens a mind of luxuriant growth, and richly adorned with the
flowers scattered over the path of knowledge. These men affect to criticise
learnedly ...
