sightliness
English
Etymology
Noun
sightliness (uncountable)
- The state or condition of being sightly; attractiveness, beauty.
- 1748, [Samuel Richardson], “Letter XLI”, in Clarissa. Or, The History of a Young Lady: […], volume I, London: […] S[amuel] Richardson; […], →OCLC, pages 280–281:
- Your ſightlineſs of perſon, may perhaps make ſome think this alliance diſparaging.