Refined grace and beauty in appearance, manner, or expression; the quality of being elegant.
From Latin elegantia, meaning tasteful selection and refined manner. The suffix -cy transforms the adjective elegant into an abstract noun describing the quality itself. This is an older or more literary variant of the modern form elegance.
Elegancy is basically the old-fashioned cousin of elegance—writers like Jane Austen used it all the time, and it sounds particularly formal because it emphasizes that elegance comes from making perfect choices.
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