debonairity

alternative debonarety · alternative debonarity

1. obsoleteuncountableThe quality of being debonair; debonair character, graciousness.

   This so high-raised courage, so swelling and so obstinate against sorow, death and povertie, was it nature or arte made it relent, even to the utmost strai ne of exceeding tendernesse and debonarety [translating debonnaireté] of complexion?

   1603, Michel de Montaigne, translated by John Florio, Essays, III.1