Adornation

Related to Adornation: adornment, adoration

Ad`or`na´tion


n.1.Adornment.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.
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Fain wou'd I rescue my Sex, or at least as many of them as come within my little Sphere, from that Meanness of Spirit into which the Generality of them are sunk, perswade them to pretend to some higher Excellency than a well-chosen Pettycoat, or a fashionable Commode; and not wholly to lay out their Time and Care in the Adornation of their Bodies, but bestow a Part of it at least in the Embellishment of their Minds.