PULCHRITUDES

Noun

pulchritudes

plural of pulchritude

Source: Wiktionary


PULCHRITUDE

Pul"chri*tude, n. Etym: [L. pulchritudo, fr. pulcher beautiful.]

1. That quality of appearance which pleases the eye; beauty; comeliness; grace; loveliness. Piercing our heartes with thy pulchritude. Court of Love.

2. Attractive moral excellence; moral beauty. By the pulchritude of their souls make up what is wanting in the beauty of their bodies. Ray.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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ENDLESSLY

(adverb) (spatial sense) seeming to have no bounds; “the Nubian desert stretched out before them endlessly”


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