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noun

Simplicity n.

The quality or state of being simple, unmixed, or uncompounded; as, the simplicity of metals or of earths.

The quality or state of being not complex, or of consisting of few parts; as, the simplicity of a machine.

Artlessness of mind; freedom from cunning or duplicity; lack of acuteness and sagacity. "Marquis Dorset, a man, for his harmless simplicity neither misliked nor much regarded." "In wit a man; simplicity a child."

Freedom from artificial ornament, pretentious style, or luxury; plainness; as, simplicity of dress, of style, or of language; simplicity of diet; simplicity of life.

Freedom from subtlety or abstruseness; clearness; as, the simplicity of a doctrine; the simplicity of an explanation or a demonstration.

Weakness of intellect; silliness; folly. "How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning?"

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"Simplicity" Quotes from Famous Books

... it you want with me?" he asked in a tone of annoyance, which astonished not a little the other. Lieutenant D'Hubert could not imagine that in the innocence of his heart and simplicity of his conscience Lieutenant Feraud took a view of his duel in which neither remorse nor yet a rational apprehension of consequences had any place. Though Lieutenant Feraud had no clear recollection how the quarrel had originated ...

— The Point Of Honor - A Military Tale • Joseph Conrad

... arriving at an ostrog, to give their whole effects, even their stock of brandy, &c. into the hands of the tayon, and there is no instance of any one having been robbed to the smallest extent. "Lieutenant Koscheleff," says K., "with his accustomed simplicity, told me that he had once been sent by his brother, the governor, with thirteen thousand roubles to distribute among the different towns; that every evening he made over his box with the money to the tayon of the ostrog where he slept, and felt much easier, having so disposed of it, than he would ...

— A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume 17 • Robert Kerr

... will forgive us, it will be simply perfect!" they told each other when they settled down for the night in their hard little cots. They said that many times in the days that followed. The utter joy of work and freedom and simplicity had ...

— The Wit and Humor of America, Volume X (of X) • Various

... unrhythmical) style—take, for instance, an Addisonian or a Swiftian style—is unconditionally good. Not so: all depends upon the subject; and there is a style, transcending these and all other modes of simplicity, by infinite degrees, and, in the same proportion, impossible to most men, the rhythmical, the continuous—what in French is called the soutenu—which, to humbler styles stands in the relation of an ...

— Essays AEsthetical • George Calvert

... the ridicule of this, and took it for a piece of simplicity, at which he laughed in his large mustache. Mme. Coquenard, who knew that a simple-minded procurator was a very rare variety in the species, smiled a little, and ...

— The Three Musketeers • Alexandre Dumas, Pere

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