pulchritude

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

PUL'CHRITUDE, noun [Latin pulchritudo, from pulcher, beautiful.] 1. Beauty; handsomeness; grace; comeliness; that quality of form which pleases the eye. 2. Moral beauty; those qualities of the mind which good men love and approve.
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