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Pulchritude   Listen
noun
Pulchritude  n.  
1.
That quality of appearance which pleases the eye; beauty; comeliness; grace; loveliness. "Piercing our heartes with thy pulchritude."
2.
Attractive moral excellence; moral beauty. "By the pulchritude of their souls make up what is wanting in the beauty of their bodies."





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"Pulchritude" Quotes from Famous Books



... and revealed. But Light not only discovers what is impure, that it may be purified, but is in itself a thing of infinite beauty. And so some of our holiest men have not hesitated to speak of God's Holiness as the infinite Pulchritude or Beauty of the Divine Being, the Perfect Purity and Beauty of that Light in which God dwelleth. And if the Holiness of God is to become ours, to rest upon us, and enter into us, there must be, without ceasing, the holy fear that trembles at the thought ...
— Holy in Christ - Thoughts on the Calling of God's Children to be Holy as He is Holy • Andrew Murray
... Pete Johnson. "You furnish the luck and personal pulchritude. That ain't all, either. I'm pickin' up some considerable education from you, learning how to pronounce words like that—pulchritude. I mispronounced ...
— Copper Streak Trail • Eugene Manlove Rhodes


Words linked to "Pulchritude" :   shapeliness, curvaceousness, beauty, voluptuousness, pulchritudinous


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