loveliness

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

LOVELINESS, noun luv'liness. [from lovely.] Amiableness; qualities of body or mind that may excite love. If there is such a native loveliness in the sex, as to make them victorious when in the wrong, how resistless their power when they are on the side of truth.
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