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LOVELINESS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The quality of being good looking and attractive
Synonyms:
beauteousness; comeliness; fairness; loveliness
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("loveliness" is a kind of...):
beauty (the qualities that give pleasure to the senses)
Derivation:
lovely (appealing to the emotions as well as the eye)
lovely (lovable especially in a childlike or naive way)
Context examples:
A woman was sleeping on some straw; she was young, not indeed so beautiful as her whose portrait I held, but of an agreeable aspect and blooming in the loveliness of youth and health.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
Waiving that point, however, and supposing her to be, as you describe her, only pretty and good-natured, let me tell you, that in the degree she possesses them, they are not trivial recommendations to the world in general, for she is, in fact, a beautiful girl, and must be thought so by ninety-nine people out of an hundred; and till it appears that men are much more philosophic on the subject of beauty than they are generally supposed; till they do fall in love with well-informed minds instead of handsome faces, a girl, with such loveliness as Harriet, has a certainty of being admired and sought after, of having the power of chusing from among many, consequently a claim to be nice.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
All Lucy's loveliness had come back to her in death, and the hours that had passed, instead of leaving traces of decay's effacing fingers, had but restored the beauty of life, till positively I could not believe my eyes that I was looking at a corpse.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
She was hasty, but good-humoured; vain (she could not help it, when every glance in the glass showed her such a flush of loveliness), but not affected; liberal-handed; innocent of the pride of wealth; ingenuous; sufficiently intelligent; gay, lively, and unthinking: she was very charming, in short, even to a cool observer of her own sex like me; but she was not profoundly interesting or thoroughly impressive.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
One morning, however, finding that my path lay through a deep wood, I ventured to continue my journey after the sun had risen; the day, which was one of the first of spring, cheered even me by the loveliness of its sunshine and the balminess of the air.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
No. Harriet undoubtedly was greatly his inferior in understanding; but he had been very much struck with the loveliness of her face and the warm simplicity of her manner; and all the probabilities of circumstance and connexion were in her favour.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
Yet he might not have been so perfectly humane, so thoughtful in his generosity, so full of kindness and tenderness amidst his passion for adventurous exploit, had she not unfolded to him the real loveliness of beneficence and made the doing good the end and aim of his soaring ambition.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
