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Synonyms: airiness; daintiness; dainty; delicacy; diplomacy; discreetness; discretion; fineness; finesse; fragility; goody; kickshaw; slightness; treat

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  1.  Of The Delicacy Of Taste And Passion / Hume, David
    report errors.[1] Editor's note: "Of the Delicacy of Taste and Passion" appeared in 1741 in Volume ... . --------------------------------------------------------------------- Of the Delicacy of Taste and Passion SOME People are subject to a certain delicacy of passion  details...
  2.  Of The Standard Of Taste / Hume, David
    not the proper sentiment of beauty, is the want of that delicacy of imagination, which is requisite to convey a sensibility of those finer emotions. This delicacy every one pretends to ...  details...
  3.  Essays and treatises on several subjects. / Hume, David, 1711-1776
    ElTay Page I. /^Fthe Delicacy of Tafle and Paffion, 17 II. V-/ Of the Liberty of the Prefs, - 21 ... *. ESSAY I. Of the Delicacy of Taste and Passion. SOME people are fubjel to a ctrt2dn delicacy ofpa  details...
  4.  A Sicilian Romance / Radcliffe, Ann Ward, 1764-1823
    , that she excelled so much in as in that delicacy of taste, and in those enchanting powers of expression, which seem ... . To good sense, lively feeling, and natural delicacy of taste, must be united an expansion of mind  details...
  5.  Mystification / Poe, Edgar Allen
    . I replied that I had entire confidence in his superior delicacy of feeling, and would abide ... , on that extreme delicacy of discrimination, in matters appertaining to the rules of etiquette  details...
  6.  Of Essay Writing / Hume, David
    the compass of their knowledge, and repose more confidence in the delicacy of their taste, though ...  details...
  7.  Vindication Of The Rights Of Woman / Wollstonecraft, Mary
    an empty name. The personal reserve, and sacred respect for cleanliness and delicacy in domestic life ... and body, and to convince them that the soft phrases, susceptibility of heart, delicacy of sentiment  details...
  8.  Section D and E /
    ; nicety; niceness; elegance; delicacy; deliciousness; fastidiousness; squeamishness.

    Dainties (#). [OE. deinie, dainte, deintie, deyntee, OF. deintié delicacy  details...

  9.  Memoirs of the Author of a Vindication of the Rights of Woman / Godwin, William, 1756-1836
    circumstance is adorned with that species of imagination, which enlists itself under the banners of delicacy ... not to remark a luxuriance of imagination, and a trembling delicacy of sentiment, which would have done honour  details...
  10.  Many Thoughts of Many Minds A Treasury of Quotations from the Literature of Every Land and Every Age / Various
    as a purifier of the heart; it imparts correctness of perception, delicacy of sentiment, and all those nicer ... .--M.G. LICHTWER. DELICACY.--Delicacy is the genuine tint of virtue.--MARGUERITE DE VALOIS. Many things  details...

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