Literary notes about venust (AI summary)
The word "venust" is employed in literature as a richly layered descriptor of beauty and elegance, often conveying not only physical attractiveness but also refined moral and stylistic qualities. It is used to evoke visions of graceful form and pleasing character, as when a lady is celebrated for her incomparable beauty and noble spirit [1]. In other instances, it underscores a harmonious blend of charm and courteous modesty—a union of appealing surface and inner virtue [2, 3]. Additionally, authors extend its application to describe artistic style and the appeal of well-composed ideas, linking aesthetic brilliance with creative genius [4, 5]. This multifaceted usage, found even in classical invocations and later poetic expressions [6, 7, 8, 9], reveals the term’s enduring role as a marker of both external allure and subtle sophistication.
- Venust the lady, and none lovelier, For her great beauty, many men look on her, Out of my love will her heart not stir.
— from Poems 1918-21, Including Three Portraits and Four Cantos by Ezra Pound - Venustà, beawty, grace, comlinesse, fauour, seemelinesse, sightlinesse.
— from Queen Anna's New World of Words; or, Dictionarie of the Italian and English Tongues by John Florio - In venustâ comitate singularem modestiam
— from The Complete Poems of Sir John Davies. Volume 1 of 2. by Davies, John, Sir - opere sue confrontò con venustà di stile e di forme le grandi idee del genio creatore. ’
— from Lamia's Winter-Quarters by Alfred Austin - ‘I think so,’ said the Poet, ‘and I am sufficiently enamoured of venustà di stile to hope so.
— from Lamia's Winter-Quarters by Alfred Austin - I n rebus tantis trina conjunctio mund I E rigit humanum sensum, laudare venust E S ola salus nobis, et mundi summa, potesta S V enit peccati
— from Gleanings from the Harvest-Fields of Literature: A Melange of Excerpta - For such joy I take With her venust and noblest to my make To hold embraced, and will not her forsake For yammer of the cuckold, Though day break.”
— from Poems 1918-21, Including Three Portraits and Four Cantos by Ezra Pound - Veduta ho l'opra tua col suo cholore, La venustà col suo sguardo benegno, Ogni suo movimento et nobil segno Che ben demonstri il tuo gientil valore.
— from Memoirs of the Dukes of Urbino, Volume 2 (of 3) Illustrating the Arms, Arts, and Literature of Italy, from 1440 To 1630. by James Dennistoun - Ventusynge , sb. cupping, C. Venust , adj.
— from John F. Kennedy's Inaugural Address by John F. (John Fitzgerald) Kennedy
