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Webster 1913 Edition
Pulchritude
Pul′chri-tude
,Noun.
[L.
pulchritudo
, fr. pulcher
beautiful.] 1.
That quality of appearance which pleases the eye; beauty; comeliness; grace; loveliness.
Piercing our heartes with thy
pulchritude
. Court of Love.
2.
Attractive moral excellence; moral beauty.
By the
pulchritude
of their souls make up what is wanting in the beauty of their bodies. Ray.
Webster 1828 Edition
Pulchritude
PUL'CHRITUDE
,Noun.
1.
Beauty; handsomeness; grace; comeliness; that quality of form which pleases the eye.2.
Moral beauty; those qualities of the mind which good men love and approve.Definition 2024
pulchritude
pulchritude
English
Noun
pulchritude (usually uncountable, plural pulchritudes)
- Physical beauty.
- 1978, Charles D. Benson and William Barnaby Faherty, Moonport: A History of Apollo Launch Facilities and Operations, NASA Special Publication 4204, 1978, ch. 4
- One participant recalls arriving at his Cocoa Beach motel on a Saturday evening with the Miss Universe contest on TV. To his wife's amazement, his interest in feminine pulchritude gave way to fatigue, and he was asleep before the final selection.
- 1979, The Jerk, 00:18:20
- Do you know why a woman of such pulchritude is married to me? 'Cause I make a comfortable living.
- 1978, Charles D. Benson and William Barnaby Faherty, Moonport: A History of Apollo Launch Facilities and Operations, NASA Special Publication 4204, 1978, ch. 4