Analyzing and Interpreting Literature / Unit 3 AIL 0232 short lesson, about 20 seconds
"Nice" Means Fastidious
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The idea
Donne writes of kissing "so devoutly nice". Nice means scrupulous, precise, or hard to please. The word travelled from precise to agreeable over centuries, and the older sense is the one this exam's period will want almost every time it appears.
In practice
Nice is precise, not pleasant.
Where people slip
This word travelled further than most.
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