concinnity

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17
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21
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10

Definition of concinnity

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. (countable, uncountable)The harmonious reinforcement of the various parts of a work of art.
    “In the Terminology, or what, to avoid the barbarism of a word compounded of Latin and Greek, they would beg to call the Orismology of the science, they have endeavoured to introduce throughout a greater degree of precision and concinnity—dividing it into general and partial Orismology; […]”

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Etymology

Coined 1531 by Sir Thomas Elyot in his treatise, The Boke Named The Governor, from Latin concinnitās (“skillfully put together”).

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