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In musicis supra omnem fidem capior et oblector; choreas libentissime aspicio, pulchraram foeminarum venustate detineor, otiari inter has solutus curis possum.
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Si quem conspexerit speciosae formae invenem, venustate ejus sumitur, et in eum animum intorquet.
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[4867] Graecian gods forsook their heavenly mansions for that fair lady, Philo Dioneus daughter's sake, the paragon of Greece in those days; ea enim venustate fuit, ut eam certatim omnes dii conjugem expeterent: for she was of such surpassing beauty, that all the gods contended for her love.
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_Videtisne, quam nihil ab eo nisi perfectè, nihil nisi cum summâ venustate fiat? nihil, nisi ita ut deceat, et uti omnes moveat, atque delectet?
A Dialogue Concerning Oratory, Or The Causes Of Corrupt Eloquence The Works Of Cornelius Tacitus, Volume 8 (of 8); With An Essay On His Life And Genius, Notes, Supplements Caius Cornelius Tacitus
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Vincentius von Beauvais (1264) in his _Speculum Naturæ_ demonstrates the value of studying Nature from a religious and moral point of view; and the Carthusian general, Dionysius von Rickel (1471), in his paper _On the beauty of the world and the glory of God (De venustate mundi et de pulchritudine Dei) _ says in Chapter xxii.
The Development of the Feeling for Nature in the Middle Ages and Modern Times Alfred Biese 1893
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Nam quanquam formâ atque venustate singulari, quæ magno nobis solatio fuit filiam Dominam Mariam ex nobilissimâ foeminâ Dominâ Catherinâ procreavimus, tamen a piis atque eruditis theologis nuper accepimus quia eam quæ Arturi fratris nostri conjux ante fuerat uxorem duximus nostras nuptias jure divino esse vetitas, partumque inde editum non posse censeri legitimum.
The Reign of Henry the Eighth, Volume 1 (of 3) James Anthony Froude 1856
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***** Fuit enim aeximiâ corporis venustate praeditus.
The History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella the Catholic — Volume 3 William Hickling Prescott 1827
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Pronuntiatio est Vocis et Vultus et Gestus moderatio cum venustate.
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'Pronuntiatio est Vocis et Vultus et Gestus moderatio cum venustate.'
The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays Joseph Addison 1695
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[9] Quem quidem locum comit multa venustate et omni sale idem Lucilius, apud quem praeclare Scaevola:
biocon commented on the word venustate
Venustate means to make beautiful, fair or sightly (Oxford English Dictionary).
September 3, 2011
bourbonmots commented on the word venustate
venustate?
I think I’d be more inclined to aphroditify something (even though it breaks the “Don’t mix Greek and Latin roots and affixes” rule).
September 5, 2011