formosity

Beauty.

Noun

  1. Beauty.
    • In vaine therefore it is to beate our braines, To frame that Forme, that fram'd all Formes that are, And yet himſelfe a formeleſſe Forme remaines, That in Formoſity is past compare, His glory is ſo great, his grace ſo...
    • A. The Schoolemen affirme; God for his exceeding formoſity and beauty,Sinne for the exceeding deformitie and loathſomneſſe , the firſt matter for the exceeding informitie and inexiſtency. - 1620, William Basse, A Helpe...
    • 4 Louingly alike affianced and eſpouſed: Moſes married Zipporah the daughter of Iethro the Ethiopian,and therefore blacke, yet fruitfull, for ſhe bare vnto Moſes two ſons, Gerſhon and Eleaſer : ſo Chriſt hath affianced...

Origin

From Late Middle English formosite, formosyte, from Old French formosité, from Latin fōrmōsitās (“beauty”). Cognate to French formosité, Scots formosite.