Costliness [noun]

In the Bible Aloes are mentioned five times, and always with reference to their excellence and costliness.

The crises due to this unregulated production, and the costliness of the struggles, led to the formation of joint-stock companies.

It is not only their costliness and their beauty, but the associations which make them of so much interest.

Though quite without means, he planned this in his visions on a scale of extreme costliness and magnificence.

As we have already remarked, the secret of perfect dressing is simplicity, costliness being no essential element of real elegance.

We take it that there is a medium to be observed, and in all cases the costliness must be regulated by circumstances.

Cheap dress, bought for cheapness sake, and costly dress bought for costliness sake, are both abominations.

The stranger is continually astonished at the magnitude and costliness of these residences.

To the untrained observer size often appeals more than proportion and costliness than suitability.

Still, as has been said, costliness is no test of merit in an age when 187 large prices are paid for bad things.