GNU Collaborative International Dictionary of English

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   Preciosity , n. Preciousness; something precious. [Obs.]
   Sir T. Browne.
   
   1913 Webster
         
       

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   Preciosity , n.; pl. -ties . [F. préciosité, OF. also precieuseté.] Fastidious refinement, esp. in language; specif., the affected purism and sententiousness characteristic of the French précieuses of the 17th century.
   He had the fastidiousness, the preciosity, the love of archaisms, of your true decadent.
   L. Douglas.
   
   Webster 1913 Suppl.