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Webster 1913 Edition
Quaintness
Quaint′ness
,Noun.
The quality of being quaint.
Pope.
Webster 1828 Edition
Quaintness
QUA'INTNESS
, n.1.
Niceness; petty neatness or elegance.There is a majesty in simplicity, which is far above the quaintness of wit.
2.
Oddness; peculiarity.Definition 2024
quaintness
quaintness
English
Noun
quaintness (countable and uncountable, plural quaintnesses)
- (obsolete) Cunning; craftiness.
- (obsolete) Skill, artfulness.
- (obsolete) Primness, fastidiousness, preciousness.
- 1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essayes, London: Edward Blount, OCLC 946730821, II.10:
- As for good Terence, I allow the quaintnesse [transl. mignardise] and grace of his Latine tongue, and judge him wonderfull conceited and apt […].
- 1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essayes, London: Edward Blount, OCLC 946730821, II.10:
- The state or fact of being quaint; having old-fashioned charm.