nicety

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So much for what Bentley calls Temple's "Nicety of Tast."

From Books and Bookmen by Lang, Andrew

And if at any Time he supp'd abroad with her, she sent them thither some Nicety or other, desiring them to be merry together.

From Colloquies of Erasmus, Volume I. by Erasmus, Desiderius

Good —— you have counterfeited to a Nicety, Charles.

From The Busie Body by Byrd, Jess

But now we come to the great Nicety of all; that is to say, the Conscience of making a Conscience of using any Conscience at all: There's a Riddle for ye, Bumpkin.

From Citt and Bumpkin (1680) by L'Estrange, Sir Roger

Another Nicety at Leipsic, is its Larks, which are sent over all Germany; nay, to Poland, Holland and Denmark.

From The Memoirs of Charles-Lewis, Baron de Pollnitz, Volume I Being the Observations He Made in His Late Travels from Prussia thro' Germany, Italy, France, Flanders, Holland, England, &C. in Letters to His Friend. Discovering Not Only the Present State of the Chief Cities and Towns; but the Characters of the Principal Persons at the Several Courts. by P?llnitz, Karl Ludwig von