Lexicographical Neighbors of Preciousnesses
Literary usage of Preciousnesses
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A History of Criticism and Literary Taste in Europe from the Earliest Texts by George Saintsbury (1902)
"... by archaisms, technicalities, preciousnesses, fished up as it were from the
bottom of the ink-pot, instead of simply and naturally taken as they came ..."
2. Fors Clavigera: Letters to the Workmen and Labourers of Great Britain by John Ruskin (1884)
"... I say, any of these singular powers or preciousnesses, but only thinking of
the constant value generalized among the King's verses, by that notable one, ..."
3. Miscellaneous Essays by George E. Saintsbury (1892)
"Few things are * more curious than this mixture of homespun and tinsel, of slang
and learning, of street repartees and elaborate coterie preciousnesses. ..."
4. Specimens of English Prose Style: From Malory to Macaulay by George Saintsbury (1885)
"Few things are more curious than this mixture of corduroy and clinquant, of slang
and learning, of street repartees and elaborate coterie preciousnesses. ..."
5. The Complete Works by John Ruskin (1894)
"... I say, any of these singular powers or preciousnesses, but only thinking of
the constant value generalized among the King's verses, by that notable one, ..."
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