فَصَاحَةٌ

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فَصَاحَةٌ , [an Verbal.Noun of فَصُحَ, q. v.: as denoting a quality of a word, and of language in general, and of a speaker or writer, from the same word as relating to milk, it signifies Chasteness, as meaning freedom from barbarousness: i. e.,] in a word, freedom from an incongruous combination of letters and from strangeness and from contrariety to analogy [not sanctioned by frequency of usage among the Arabs of pure speech; (KT, and Mz in the 9th نوع;) [for] the point upon which it turns is the frequency of the use of a word by the Arabs [of pure speech]; a word being known to have this quality by its being frequently used by the Arabs in whose Arabic confidence is placed, or by its being used by them more frequently than one synonymous therewith: (El-Kazweenee in the “ Eedáh, ” cited in the same نوع of the Mz:) and in language [in general], freedom from weakness of construction (ظَعْفُ التَّأْلِيفِ q. v.) and from incongruity of words, combined with فَصَاحَة in the words themselves: and in a speaker [or writer] a faculty whereby one is enabled to express what he desires, with فَصَاحَة in language: or goodness and correctness in language, or dialect: or clearness, perspicuousness, or distinctness, in speech, or language: and [agreeably with an explanation of فَصِيحٌ in the S and A &c.] it is sometimes used as meaning eloquence; syn. بَلَاغَةٌ [from which it is properly distinct].

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