| Concept: | Beauty. |
| Category: | 2. Discriminative Affections |
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auxilium non leve vultus habet [Ovid]; "beauty born of murmuring sound" [Wordsworth]; "flowers preach to us if we will hear" [C.G. Rossetti]; gratior ac pulchro veniens in corpore virtus [Vergil]; "none but the brave deserve the fair" [Dryden]; "thou who hast the fatal gift of beauty" [Byron].
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| Antonyms: | ugliness |
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| Concept: | [Capability of producing good. Good qualities.] Goodness. |
| Category: | 2. Subservience to ends; degree of subservience |
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"Jewels five words long" [Tennyson]; "long may such goodness live!" [Rogers]; "the luxury of doing good" [Goldsmith].
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| Antonyms: | badness |
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| Concept: | Piety. |
| Category: | 3. Religious sentiments |
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ne vile fano; "pure-eyed Faith . . . thou hovering angel girt with golden wings" [Milton].
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| Antonyms: | impiety |
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| Concept: | Pity. |
| Category: | 2. Special Sympathetic Affections |
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one's heart bleeding for; haud ignara mali miseris succurrere disco [Vergil]; "a fellow feeling makes one wondrous kind" [Garrick]; onor di bocca assai giova e poco
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| Antonyms: | pitilessness |
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| Concept: | Style. |
| Category: | 2. Conventional means; language generally |
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le style est l'homme même [Buffon]; "style is the dress of thoughts " [Chesterfield].
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| Concept: | [Good taste.] Taste. |
| Category: | 2. Discriminative Affections |
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nihil tetigit quod non ornavit [from Johnson's epitaph on Goldsmith]; chacun a son gout; oculi pictura tenentur aures cantibus [Cicero].
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| Antonyms: | vulgarity |
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