Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun That quality of flesh-painting which simulates the suppleness, elastic firmness, and soft delicacy of natural flesh.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Fine Arts) Delicacy or softness in the representation of flesh.
- noun (Mus.) A term used as a direction in execution, signifying, with extreme delicacy.
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- noun
Softness ,smoothness ; also in a negative sense,weakness ,effeminacy . - noun art A naturalistic
delicacy in flesh tones.
Etymologies
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Examples
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We happened to dine at a lady's house, a league from Machecoul, where Mademoiselle de Retz, looking in the glass at an assembly of ladies, displayed all those tender, lively, moving airs which the Italians call 'morbidezza', or the lover's languish.
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Was love ever painted with more truth and 'morbidezza' than in the ninth book?
Complete Project Gutenberg Earl of Chesterfield Works Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield 1733
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Was love ever painted with more truth and 'morbidezza' than in the ninth book?
Letters to His Son on the Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman, 1752 Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield 1733
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We happened to dine at a lady's house, a league from Machecoul, where Mademoiselle de Retz, looking in the glass at an assembly of ladies, displayed all those tender, lively, moving airs which the Italians call 'morbidezza', or the lover's languish.
The Memoirs of Cardinal de Retz — Complete [Historic court memoirs] Jean Fran��ois Paul de Gondi de Retz 1646
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We happened to dine at a lady's house, a league from Machecoul, where Mademoiselle de Retz, looking in the glass at an assembly of ladies, displayed all those tender, lively, moving airs which the Italians call 'morbidezza', or the lover's languish.
The Memoirs of Cardinal de Retz — Volume 1 [Historic court memoirs] Jean Fran��ois Paul de Gondi de Retz 1646
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'morbidezza': a great testimony of their consanguinity and consubstantiality.
The Essays of Montaigne — Complete Michel de Montaigne 1562
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'morbidezza': a great testimony of their consanguinity and consubstantiality.
The Essays of Montaigne — Volume 12 Michel de Montaigne 1562
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Was love ever painted with more truth and morbidezza than in the ninth book?
Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman 2005
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I think, a good one, and RAPHAEL HARTE has drawn the outlines admirably; nothing is now wanting but the coloring of Titian, and the Graces, the morbidezza of Guido; but that is a great deal.
Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman 2005
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In ageing morbidezza, the character of their race.
At Swim, Two Boys Jamie O’Neill 2002
EAMHarris commented on the word morbidezza
I've added this to my New words list but I doubt if I'll ever use it. It makes me think of 'morbid' and its related words.
June 8, 2012