PULCHRITUDE (Noun)
1. Physical beauty
2. Attractive moral excellence
Etymology: Middle English pulcritude, from Latin pulchritudo, from pulcher, beautiful
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Report /ripôrt’/ [L, re + portare, to carry], (in nursing) the transfer of information from the nurses on one shift to the nurses on the following shift
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Some people think it's actually a kind of ugly word, not at all in keeping with its meaning. Who's to account for taste?
Could you use it in a sentence, please?
Ok, admittedly I had to look this up, but http://dictionary.reference.com had the following example:
Where Linda has her infectious charm, Polly has only her empty pulchritude.
-- Hannah Betts, "Sixty years on, and it's still a gel thing", Times (London), February 3, 2001
Do you have anything better to do with your time?
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