Noun

(en-noun)

Grace, refinement, and beauty in movement, appearance, or manners

The bride was elegance personified.

Restraint and grace of style

The simple dress had a quiet elegance .

The beauty of an idea characterized by minimalism and intuitiveness while preserving exactness and precision

The proof of the theorem had a pleasing elegance .

(countable) A refinement or luxury

* {{quote-book, year=1852, author=Various, title=Young Americans Abroad, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=As to the comforts and elegances of life, we have enough of them for our good. }}

* {{quote-book, year=1881, author=Isaac D'Israeli, title=Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=At Rome, when Sallust was the fashionable writer, short sentences, uncommon words, and an obscure brevity, were affected as so many elegances . }}

* {{quote-book, year=1909, author=E. Phillips Oppenheim, title=The Governors, chapter=10, edition= citation

, passage=Phineas Duge

Noun

(uncountable) relenting; forbearance to cause or allow harm to another

(uncountable) forgiveness or compassion, especially toward those less fortunate.

(uncountable) A tendency toward forgiveness, pity, or compassion

(countable) Instances of forbearance or forgiveness.

A blessing, something to be thankful for.

(phrasal) Subjugation, power.

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, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=1 , passage=The stories did not seem to me to touch life. […] They left me with the impression of a well-delivered stereopticon lecture, with characters about as life-like as the shadows on the screen, and whisking on and off, at the mercy of the operator.}}