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Inelegancy   Listen
noun
Inelegancy, Inelegance  n.  (pl. inelegances, inelegancies)  
1.
The quality of being inelegant; lack of elegance or grace; lack of refinement, beauty, or polish in language, composition, or manners. "The notorious inelegance of her figure."
2.
Anything inelegant; as, inelegance of style in literary composition.





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"Inelegancy" Quotes from Famous Books



... a proud ecclesiastic or haughty baron of his day; and well they might, for how homely does his pen record the simple annals of that far distant age. Much have the old monks been blamed for their bad Latin and their humble style; but far from upbraiding, I would admire them for it; for is not the inelegance of diction which their unpretending chronicles display, sufficiently compensated by their charming simplicity. As for myself, I have sometimes read them by the blaze of my cheerful hearth, or among the ruins of some old monastic abbey,[250] till in imagination I beheld the events ...
— Bibliomania in the Middle Ages • Frederick Somner Merryweather
... Watts was one of the first authors that taught the Dissenters to court attention by the graces of language. Whatever they had among them before, whether of learning or acuteness, was commonly obscured and blunted by coarseness and inelegance of style. He showed them that zeal and purity might be expressed and enforced ...
— Life Of Johnson, Vol. 1 • Boswell, Edited by Birkbeck Hill
... pieces of old southern mahogany, much battered, but with a fine air about them still. These were the contributions of Milly's mother, who had been of a Kentucky family. To these had been added here and there pieces of many different styles and shades of modern inelegance. One layer of the conglomerate was specially distasteful to Milly. That was the black-walnut "parlor set," covered with a faded green velvet, the contribution of Grandma Ridge from her Pennsylvania home. It still seemed to the little old lady ...
— One Woman's Life • Robert Herrick


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