Definition of "gracefulness" []

• The state of being graceful. (noun)

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• "Marionettentheater, whose gracefulness is "not an end in itself, but a device to impress the teacher":"
• "He went through his duties with untiring assiduity, and with a kind of gracefulness, which by mere description can scarcely be made intelligible to those who are unacquainted with the manners of the Asiatics."
• "Children, careless of pleasing, and only anxious to amuse themselves, are often very graceful; and the nobility who have mostly lived with inferiours, and always had the command of money, acquire a graceful case of deportment, which should rather be termed habitual grace of body, than that superiour gracefulness which is truly the expression of the mind."