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Preciosity \Pre`ci*os"i*ty\, n.
Preciousness; something precious. [Obs.] --Sir T. Browne.
[1913 Webster]


Preciosity \Pre`ci*os"i*ty\, n.; pl. {-ties}. [F.
pr['e]ciosit['e], OF. also precieuset['e].]
Fastidious refinement, esp. in language; specif., the
affected purism and sententiousness characteristic of the
French pr['e]cieuses of the 17th century.

He had the fastidiousness, the preciosity, the love of
archaisms, of your true decadent. --L. Douglas.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]