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Delicacies
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Delicacy \Del"i*ca*cy\, n.; pl. Delicacies. [From Delicate,
a.]
1. The state or condition of being delicate; agreeableness to
the senses; delightfulness; as, delicacy of flavor, of
odor, and the like.
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What choice to choose for delicacy best. --Milton.
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2. Nicety or fineness of form, texture, or constitution;
softness; elegance; smoothness; tenderness; and hence,
frailty or weakness; as, the delicacy of a fiber or a
thread; delicacy of a hand or of the human form; delicacy
of the skin; delicacy of frame.
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3. Nice propriety of manners or conduct; susceptibility or
tenderness of feeling; refinement; fastidiousness; and
hence, in an exaggerated sense, effeminacy; as, great
delicacy of behavior; delicacy in doing a kindness;
delicacy of character that unfits for earnest action.
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You know your mother's delicacy in this point.
--Cowper.
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4. Addiction to pleasure; luxury; daintiness; indulgence;
luxurious or voluptuous treatment.
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And to those dainty limbs which Nature lent
For gentle usage and soft delicacy? --Milton.
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5. Nice and refined perception and discrimination; critical
niceness; fastidious accuracy.
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That Augustan delicacy of taste which is the boast
of the great public schools of England. --Macaulay.
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6. The state of being affected by slight causes;
sensitiveness; as, the delicacy of a chemist's balance.
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7. That which is alluring, delicate, or refined; a luxury or
pleasure; something pleasant to the senses, especially to
the sense of taste; a dainty; as, delicacies of the table.
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The merchants of the earth are waxed rich through
the abundance of her delicacies. --Rev. xviii.
3.
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8. Pleasure; gratification; delight. [Obs.]
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He Rome brent for his delicacie. --Chaucer.

Syn: See Dainty.
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Indelicacies
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Indelicacy \In*del"i*ca*cy\, n.; pl. Indelicacies. [From
Indelicate.]
The quality of being indelicate; lack of delicacy, or of a
nice sense of, or regard for, purity, propriety, or
refinement in manners, language, etc.; rudeness; coarseness;
also, that which is offensive to refined taste or purity of
mind.
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The indelicacy of English comedy. --Blair.
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Your papers would be chargeable with worse than
indelicacy; they would be immoral. --Addison.
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