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Debonair vs Debonairity - What's the difference?

debonair | debonairity |

In obsolete|lang=en terms the difference between debonair and debonairity

is that debonair is (obsolete) gracious, courteous while debonairity is (obsolete) the quality of being debonair; debonair character, graciousness.

As an adjective debonair

is (obsolete) gracious, courteous.

As a noun debonairity is

(obsolete) the quality of being debonair; debonair character, graciousness.

debonair

English

Alternative forms

* debonaire

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • (obsolete) Gracious, courteous.
  • * 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , II.vi:
    • Let be that Ladie debonaire , / Thou recreant knight, and soone thy selfe prepaire / To battell [...].
  • Suave, urbane and sophisticated.
  • (especially of men) Charming, confident and carefully dressed.

    • Anagrams

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    debonairity

    English

    Alternative forms

    *debonarety, debonarity

    Noun

    (-)
  • (obsolete) The quality of being debonair; debonair character, graciousness.
  • *1603 , (John Florio), translating Michel de Montaigne, Essays , III.1:
  • *:This so high-raised courage, so swelling and so obstinate against sorow, death and povertie, was it nature or arte made it relent, even to the utmost strai ne of exceeding tendernesse and debonarety of complexion?