beauteous

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Scrabble points
11
Words With Friends
14
Letters
9
Pronunciation
/ˈbjuːtɪəs/ (UK)
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/ˈbjuːtɪəs/ (UK) · /ˈbjuːtʃəs/ (UK)

Definition of beauteous

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. (formal, literary, poetic)beautiful.
    “VVhy didſt thou promiſe ſuch a beautious day, And make me trauaile forth without my cloake, To let bace cloudes ore-take me in my way, Hiding thy brau'ry in their rotten ſmoke.”
    “O wonder! / How many goodly creatures are there heere? / How beauteous mankinde is? O braue new world / That has ſuch people in't.”
    “Let Prudence yet obſtruct thy venturous way; / And take good heed, what men will think and ſay: / That beauteous Emma vagrant courſes took; / Her father's houſe and civil life forſook; / That, full of youthful blood, and fond of man; / She to the wood-land with an exile ran.”

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Etymology

From Middle English beautevous, bewteose, beautuous, boyteous, beuteus, beuteowse, bewtyvows, equivalent to beauty + -ous and/or beauty + -eous.

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