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Definition of Quaintness

1. Noun. The quality of being quaint and old-fashioned. "She liked the old cottage; its quaintness was appealing"

2. Noun. Strangeness as a consequence of being old fashioned. "Some words in her dialect had a charming quaintness"

Definition of Quaintness

1. n. The quality of being quaint.

Definition of Quaintness

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Literary usage of Quaintness

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1. The Works of Oscar Wilde by Oscar Wilde, Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly (1909)
"However, here is one of Mrs. Kingsford's dreams. It has a pleasant quaintness about it :— "THE WONDERFUL SPECTACLES. ..."

2. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, George Walter Prothero (1902)
"while, on the other, we cannot retain expressions which, if literally rendered in English, or any modern tongue, would have an air of quaintness or ..."

3. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1820)
"That quaintness of madness of metaphor and antithesis, and elaborate metaphor, in which this depravity is thought to consist, are best known from a ..."

4. America, Historical, Statistic, and Descriptive by James Silk Buckingham (1841)
"Editorial Taste for Quaintness and Singularity.—Literary Institutions.—Lectures and Library. THE population of the City of Baltimore by the census of 1830 ..."

5. Appraisements and Asperities as to Some Contemporary Writers by Felix Emmanuel Schelling (1922)
"THE Quaintness OF MR. CROTHERS A1^ ingenious friend of mine has divided books into two very definite and quite exclusive classes, the one of the other. ..."

6. Appraisements and Asperities as to Some Contemporary Writers by Felix Emmanuel Schelling (1922)
"THE Quaintness OF MR. CROTHERS A^I ingenious friend of mine has divided books into two very definite and quite exclusive classes, the one of the other. ..."

7. Appraisements and Asperities as to Some Contemporary Writers by Felix Emmanuel Schelling (1922)
"THE Quaintness OF MR. CROTHERS A^ ingenious friend of mine has divided books into two very definite and quite exclusive classes, the one of the other. ..."

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