| Mawson, C.O.S., ed. (1870–1938). Roget’s International Thesaurus. 1922. |
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| Class IV. Words Relating to the Intellectual Faculties | | Division (II) Communication of Ideas | | Section III. Means of Communicating Ideas |
| Various Qualities of Style |
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| 578. Elegance. |
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| NOUN: | ELEGANCE, distinction, clarity, purity, grace, felicity, ease; gracefulness, readiness &c. adj.; concinnity, concinnation [rare], euphony; balance, rhythm, symmetry, proportion, taste, good taste, restraint, nice discrimination, propriety, correctness; Attic salt, Atticism, classicalism, classicism.
well-rounded -, well-turned -, flowing- periods; the right word in the right place; antithesis [See Ornament].
PURIST, classicist, stylist.
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| VERB: | FLOW -SMOOTHLY, - with ease; discriminate nicely, display elegance &c. n.; point an antithesis, round a period.
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| ADJECTIVE: | ELEGANT, polished, classic or classical, classicistic, concinnous [rare], correct, Attic, Ciceronian, artistic; chaste, pure, Saxon, academic or academical.
graceful, easy, readable, fluent, flowing, tripping; unaffected, natural, unlabored; mellifluous, euphonious; euphemistic; symmetrical, balanced, restrained; rhythmic or rhythmical.
FELICITOUS, happy, neat; well -, neatly- -put, - expressed.
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| QUOTATIONS: | - True ease in writing comes from art, not chance.—Pope
- Whoever wishes to obtain an English style … must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison.—Johnson—Boswell’s Life
- Elegant as simplicity.—Cowper
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