Pronunciations (2)
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/fɔːˈmɒsɪti/
Pronunciation notes
- Received-Pronunciation
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/fɔɹˈmɑsɪti/
Pronunciation notes
- General-American
Noun
Beauty.
Usage- Dated
- Formal
- Uncountable
- Examples
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More examples (5)
In vaine therefore it is to beate our braines, To frame that Forme, that fram'd all Formes that are, And yet himſelfe a formeleſſe Forme remaines, That in Formoſity is past compare, His glory is ſo great, his grace ſo rare!
A. The Schoolemen affirme; God for his exceeding formoſity and beauty,Sinne for the exceeding deformitie and loathſomneſſe , the firſt matter for the exceeding informitie and inexiſtency.
4 Louingly alike affianced and eſpouſed: Moſes married Zipporah the daughter of Iethro the Ethiopian,and therefore blacke, yet fruitfull, for ſhe bare vnto Moſes two ſons, Gerſhon and Eleaſer : ſo Chriſt hath affianced himſelfe to the Church; who if ſhe want externall formoſity, yet not fecundity, for ſhe bringeth forth many children vnto God.
[…] he left not many trees behind him, before he diſcovered mounted upon a black Palfrey a Damſell of exquiſite formoſity, urged with ſorrow making towards him : […]
His own education was ordinary, his breeding provincially constricted: but he had (with singular personal formosity) an extraordinary faculty of appreciation and an inchanting sense of obligation.