sightliness

noun

sightliness

noun

Etymology From sightly + -ness.

1

The state or condition of being sightly; attractiveness, beauty.

  • Your ſightlineſs of perſon, may perhaps make ſome think this alliance diſparaging.1748, [Samuel Richardson], “Letter XLI”, in Clarissa. Or, The History of a Young Lady: […], volume I, London: […] S[amuel] Richardson; [a]nd sold by A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC, pages 280–281:

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