concinnity

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Novak was delighted by this concinnity, and even more delighted by the treatments on offer that day at the storefront franchise spa concept.

From New York Times • Oct. 12, 2021

The Wintersian virtue of concinnity become a principle of governance:

From The New Yorker • Mar. 11, 2019

None of the stories are precisely those of Aesop, and none have the concinnity, terseness, and unmistakable deduction of the lesson intended to be taught by the fable, so conspicuous in the great Greek fabulist.

From Aesop's Fables Translated by George Fyler Townsend by Townsend, George Fyler

We know not whether to admire most the genial, fresh, and discursive concinnity of the author, or his playful fancy, weird imagination, and compass of style, at once both objective and subjective….

From The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell by Lowell, James Russell

But there are likewise certain forms of expression, which have such a natural concinnity, as will necessarily have a similar effect to that of regular numbers.

From Cicero's Brutus or History of Famous Orators; also His Orator, or Accomplished Speaker. by Jones, E.