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    Delicacy , n.; pl. Delicacies . [From Delicate, a.]
    1. The state or condition of being delicate; agreeableness to the senses; delightfulness; as, delicacy of flavor, of odor, and the like.
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      What choice to choose for delicacy best.
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    2. Nicety or fineness of form, texture, or constitution; softness; elegance; smoothness; tenderness; and hence, frailty or weakness; as, the delicacy of a fiber or a thread; delicacy of a hand or of the human form; delicacy of the skin; delicacy of frame.
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    3. Nice propriety of manners or conduct; susceptibility or tenderness of feeling; refinement; fastidiousness; and hence, in an exaggerated sense, effeminacy; as, great delicacy of behavior; delicacy in doing a kindness; delicacy of character that unfits for earnest action.
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      You know your mother's delicacy in this point.
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    4. Addiction to pleasure; luxury; daintiness; indulgence; luxurious or voluptuous treatment.
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      And to those dainty limbs which Nature lent
      For gentle usage and soft delicacy?
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    5. Nice and refined perception and discrimination; critical niceness; fastidious accuracy.
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      That Augustan delicacy of taste which is the boast of the great public schools of England.
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    6. The state of being affected by slight causes; sensitiveness; as, the delicacy of a chemist's balance.
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    7. That which is alluring, delicate, or refined; a luxury or pleasure; something pleasant to the senses, especially to the sense of taste; a dainty; as, delicacies of the table.
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      The merchants of the earth are waxed rich through the abundance of her delicacies.
      Rev. xviii. 3.

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    8. Pleasure; gratification; delight. [Obs.]
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      He Rome brent for his delicacie.
      Chaucer.
      Syn. -- See Dainty.
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