Contents -AUTHOR INDEX -BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD

Mawson, C.O.S., ed. (1870–1938). Roget’s International Thesaurus. 1922.

Class IV. Words Relating to the Intellectual Faculties
Division (II) Communication of Ideas
Section III. Means of Communicating Ideas
Various Qualities of Style

578. Elegance.

   NOUN:ELEGANCE, distinction, clarity, purity, grace, felicity, ease; gracefulness, readiness &c. adj.; concinnity, concinnation [rare], euphony; balance, rhythm, symmetry, proportion, taste, good taste, restraint, nice discrimination, propriety, correctness; Attic salt, Atticism, classicalism, classicism.
  well-rounded -, well-turned -, flowing- periods; the right word in the right place; antithesis [See Ornament].
  PURIST, classicist, stylist.
   VERB:FLOW -SMOOTHLY, – with ease; discriminate nicely, display elegance &c. n.; point an antithesis, round a period.
   ADJECTIVE:ELEGANT, polished, classic or classical, classicistic, concinnous [rare], correct, Attic, Ciceronian, artistic; chaste, pure, Saxon, academic or academical.
  graceful, easy, readable, fluent, flowing, tripping; unaffected, natural, unlabored; mellifluous, euphonious; euphemistic; symmetrical, balanced, restrained; rhythmic or rhythmical.
  FELICITOUS, happy, neat; well -, neatly- -put, – expressed.
   QUOTATIONS:

1. True ease in writing comes from art, not chance.—Pope
2. Whoever wishes to obtain an English style … must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison.—Johnson—Boswell’s Life
3. Elegant as simplicity.—Cowper