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Webster 1913 Edition

Suavity

Suav′i-ty

,
Noun.
[L.
suavitas
: cf. F.
suavité
.]
1.
Sweetness to the taste.
[Obs.]
Sir T. Browne.
2.
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
.
Glanvill.

Webster 1828 Edition

Suavity

SUAVITY

,
Noun.
[L.]
1.
Sweetness, in a literal sense. [Not in use.]
2.
Sweetness, in a figurative sense; that which is to the mind what sweetness is to the tongue; agreeableness; softness; pleasantness; as suavity of manners; suavity of language, conversation or address.

Definition 2024

suavity

suavity

English

Noun

suavity ‎(plural suavities)

  1. (obsolete) Sweetness to the taste.
  2. The quality of being sweet or pleasing to the mind; agreeableness; softness; smoothness; pleasantness; gentleness; urbanity; as, suavity of manners; suavity of language, conversation, or address.
    • 1881, Robert Louis Stevenson, Virginibus Puerisque:
      [...] nothing, not even the crude curves of the railway, can utterly deform the suavity of contour of one bay after another along the whole reach of the Riviera.
    ..names full of legendary suavity and interest..

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