Adjective : mystic rites. ,a mystic formula. From Dictionary.com.
There is exceptional mysticity hovering over his hills and stretches of dune and sky. From Wordnik.com. [Adventures in the Arts Informal Chapters on Painters, Vaudeville, and Poets] Reference
But mysticity saved him from plain paganism, and the art of the Gothic cathedral grew dear to him. From Wordnik.com. [A Mere Accident] Reference
"A deep mysticity brooded over real things and partings," marriages and many acts and accidents of life. From Wordnik.com. [Youth: Its Education, Regimen, and Hygiene] Reference
Certain portions of that bread and wine were taken into the bishop's hands; and thereafter, with an increasing mysticity and effusion the rite proceeded. From Wordnik.com. [Marius the Epicurean — Volume 2] Reference
Keller and Goethe, and the duality of Pater, with his great and tyrannical intensification of sensation for nature and the sequent mysticity and symbolism. From Wordnik.com. [Youth: Its Education, Regimen, and Hygiene] Reference
The manifestation of modern pessimism in John Norton has been described, and how its influence was checked by constitutional mysticity has also been shown. From Wordnik.com. [A Mere Accident] Reference
Flavian had caught, indeed, something of the rhyming cadence, the sonorous organ-music of the medieval Latin, and therewithal something of its unction and mysticity of spirit. From Wordnik.com. [Marius the Epicurean — Volume 1] Reference
Together with all the novelty, the innovating and improving skill, which has made Canachus remembered, an attractive, old-world, deeply-felt mysticity seems still to cling about what we read of these early works. From Wordnik.com. [Greek Studies: a Series of Essays] Reference
In what we have seen of this first period of Greek art, in all its curious essays and inventions, we may observe this demand for beautiful idols increasing in Greece -- for sacred images, at first still rude, and in some degree the holier for their rudeness, but which yet constitute the beginnings of the religious style, consummate in the work of Pheidias, uniting the veritable image of man in the full possession of his reasonable soul, with the true religious mysticity, the signature there of something from afar. From Wordnik.com. [Greek Studies: a Series of Essays] Reference
What profound unction and mysticity!. From Wordnik.com. [Marius the Epicurean — Volume 2] Reference
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