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  • 1fine — fine1 /fuyn/, adj., finer, finest, adv., v., fined, fining, n. adj. 1. of superior or best quality; of high or highest grade: fine wine. 2. choice, excellent, or admirable: a fine painting. 3. consisting of minute part …

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  • 2fine — 1. adj., n., adv., & v. adj. 1 of high quality. 2 a excellent; of notable merit (a fine painting). b good, satisfactory (that will be fine). c fortunate (has been a fine thing for him). d well conceived or expressed (a fine saying). 3 a pure,… …

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  • 3fine — I [[t]faɪn[/t]] adj. fin•er, fin•est, 1) of superior or best quality; of high or highest grade; excellent: fine wine[/ex] 2) consisting of minute particles: fine sand[/ex] 3) very thin; slender: fine thread[/ex] 4) keen; sharp, as a tool 5)… …

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  • 4Finical — Fin i*cal, a. [From {Fine}, a.] Affectedly fine; overnice; unduly particular; fastidious. Finical taste. Wordsworth. [1913 Webster] The gross style consists in giving no detail, the finical in giving nothing else. Hazlitt. Syn: {Finical},… …

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  • 5Finically — Finical Fin i*cal, a. [From {Fine}, a.] Affectedly fine; overnice; unduly particular; fastidious. Finical taste. Wordsworth. [1913 Webster] The gross style consists in giving no detail, the finical in giving nothing else. Hazlitt. Syn: {Finical} …

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  • 6Finicalness — Finical Fin i*cal, a. [From {Fine}, a.] Affectedly fine; overnice; unduly particular; fastidious. Finical taste. Wordsworth. [1913 Webster] The gross style consists in giving no detail, the finical in giving nothing else. Hazlitt. Syn: {Finical} …

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  • 7namby-pamby — a. Finical, affectedly fine, silly, weakly sentimental, insipid, vapid …

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  • 8Fathers of the Church — • The word Father is used in the New Testament to mean a teacher of spiritual things, by whose means the soul of man is born again into the likeness of Christ: Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. Fathers of the Church      …

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  • 9soft — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. supple, pliant; faint, low; kind, lenient; easy. See softness, faintness, leniency, facility. II (Roget s IV) modif. 1. [Pliable] Syn. malleable, pliant, elastic; see flexible 1 . 2. [Soft to the… …

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  • 10dainty — [dān′tē] n. pl. dainties [ME deinte, excellent, fine, orig., feeling of esteem < Anglo Fr deinté < OFr deinté < L dignitas, worth, DIGNITY] a choice food; delicacy adj. daintier, daintiest 1. delicious and choice [a dainty morsel] 2.… …

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