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noun

Fineness n.

The quality or condition of being fine.

Freedom from foreign matter or alloy; clearness; purity; as, the fineness of liquor. "The fineness of the gold, and chargeful fashion."

The proportion of pure silver or gold in jewelry, bullion, or coins. Note: The fineness of United States coin is nine tenths, that of English gold coin is eleven twelfths, and that of English silver coin is 925:1000.

Keenness or sharpness; as, the fineness of a needle's point, or of the edge of a blade.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Fineness" Quotes from Famous Books

... no, because how would he get your measure?—and surely no modest woman could give him hers even if she did take it herself—anyway, you'd be insulted by all the street rowdies as you rode by, to say nothing of being ogled by men without a particle of fineness in their natures—but there's always something to be said on both sides, and it's time woman came into her own, anyway, if she is ever to be anything but man's toy for his idle moments—still it would never do to go to extremes in a narrow little town like this with every one just looking for an ...

— Somewhere in Red Gap • Harry Leon Wilson

... a word dear to Jacques de Wissant. It was one which he used as a synonym for great things—things such as honour, fineness of ...

— Studies in love and in terror • Marie Belloc Lowndes

... things are merely the superficialities of her. There still remains the princess herself below these wonderful externals. There still remains the woman herself. Woman, any woman, is marvelous enough, Covington. When you think of all they stand for, the fineness of them compared with our man grossness, that wonderful power of creation in them, their exquisite delicacy, combined with the big-souled capacity for sacrifice and suffering that dwarfs any of our petty burdens into insignificance—God ...

— The Triflers • Frederick Orin Bartlett

... of letters, who in his own age filled a sphere not unlike that of Voltaire in a later century. There is another portrait of Erasmus by Holbein, often repeated, so that two great artists have contributed to his renown. That by Duerer is admired. The general fineness of touch, with the accessories of books and flowers, shows the care in its execution; but it wants expression, and the ...

— The Best Portraits in Engraving • Charles Sumner

... material in woman, and I wondered if in her case outward appearances were as deceptive as they were in my wife—with her saint's eyes, and her distorted moral vision. Perhaps I was intuitively right, and that beneath Delilah Jeliffe's exterior there is a certain fineness, and that these funny fads of dress and decorations are merely in some way her striving toward the expression ...

— Contrary Mary • Temple Bailey

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