There was a moment of inner peace in which belief and doubt merged into a strangely comforting concinnity. From Wordnik.com. [Analog Science Fiction and Fact]
But there are likewise certain forms of expression, which have such a natural concinnity, as will necessarily have a similar effect to that of regular numbers. From Wordnik.com. [Cicero's Brutus or History of Famous Orators; also His Orator, or Accomplished Speaker.] Reference
By seeking to document the patterns of concinnity in Creation. From Wordnik.com. [Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]] Reference
Sarah Palin's concinnity in her speeches has the crowds cheering their approval. From Wordnik.com. [Latest Articles] Reference
There is concinnity in Sean Hannity and the other conservative talkers on the airwaves. From Wordnik.com. [Latest Articles] Reference
Foreign Secretary, -- the ornate and correct rhetorician, so famed for the concinnity of his phrases, the Earl of Beaconsfield. From Wordnik.com. [Tacitus and Bracciolini The Annals Forged in the XVth Century] Reference
"Were such and such things rightly methodized? such and such words well placed? was there an exact concinnity in what was said?" and the like. From Wordnik.com. [The Whole Works of the Rev. John Howe, M.A. with a Memoir of the Author. Vol. VI.] Reference
We know not whether to admire most the genial, fresh, and discursive concinnity of the author, or his playful fancy, weird imagination, and compass of style, at once both objective and subjective. From Wordnik.com. [The Biglow Papers] Reference
None of the stories are precisely those of Aesop, and none have the concinnity, terseness, and unmistakable deduction of the lesson intended to be taught by the fable, so conspicuous in the great Greek fabulist. From Wordnik.com. [Fables] Reference
There is no such writing as this in any of the works of Tacitus, who, though curt and concise, is always remarkable for concinnity and clearness of expression as well as for perspicuity and consecutiveness of idea. From Wordnik.com. [Tacitus and Bracciolini The Annals Forged in the XVth Century] Reference
Laplacian evolutionism, this nebular theory of such exquisite concinnity, here reduced to its simplest terms and most elementary dimensions, has received many hard knocks from later astronomers, and has been a good deal bowled over, both on mathematical and astronomical grounds, by recent investigators of nebulæ and meteors. From Wordnik.com. [Falling in Love With Other Essays on More Exact Branches of Science] Reference
But what can be more insipid, more frivolous, or more puerile, than that very concinnity of expression which he actually acquired? ". From Wordnik.com. [Cicero's Brutus or History of Famous Orators; also His Orator, or Accomplished Speaker.] Reference
You are then to know, that Coppo di Borghese Domenichi, a man that in our day was, and perchance still is, had in respect and great reverence in our city, being not only by reason of his noble lineage, but, and yet more, for manners and merit most illustrious and worthy of eternal renown, was in his old age not seldom wont to amuse himself by discoursing of things past with his neighbours and other folk; wherein he had not his match for accuracy and compass of memory and concinnity of speech. From Wordnik.com. [The Decameron, Volume II] Reference
And in that pure concinnity of soul. From Wordnik.com. [Hypolympia Or, The Gods in the Island, an Ironic Fantasy] Reference
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