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Seemliness

noun
1.
A sense of propriety and consideration for others.  Synonym: grace.






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"Seemliness" Quotes from Famous Books



... difficulties,—by saying, as Mr. Wells practically does, "Our God is no metaphysician. He does not care, and very likely does not know, how this tangle of existence came into being. He is only concerned to disentangle it a little, to reduce the chaos of the world to some sort of seemliness and order"? Is it an idle and presumptuous curiosity which enquires whether we are to consider him co-ordinate with the Veiled Being, and in that case probably hostile, or subordinate, and in that case instrumental? ...
— God and Mr. Wells - A Critical Examination of 'God the Invisible King' • William Archer

... the haste that takes the seemliness from every act, my mind, which at first had been restrained, let loose its attention, as though eager, and I turned my face unto the hill that towards the heaven rises highest from the sea. The sun, which behind was flaming ruddy, was broken in front of me by the figure that the ...
— The Divine Comedy, Volume 2, Purgatory [Purgatorio] • Dante Alighieri



Words linked to "Seemliness" :   correctitude, grace, unseemliness, properness, seemly, propriety



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