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Grammar : Adj

Spell : ri-fahynd

Phonetic Transcription : rɪˈfaɪnd

Definition of refined

Origin : 1570s, "subtle;" 1580s, "elegant;" 1590s, "purified," past participle adjective from refine (v.).

adj cultured, civilized
adj cleaned of impurities

Example sentences :

Sympathetic persons are apt to assume that every refined emotion must be ennobling.
Extract from : « Malbone » by Thomas Wentworth Higginson

Major Harper, the oldest, most refined and most soldierly of them all, was also the handsomest.
Extract from : « The Cavalier » by George Washington Cable

But it is in graceful, refined France that cookery is and has been, a pet art.
Extract from : « Culture and Cooking » by Catherine Owen

His accent was none of the Elberthal one; it was fine, refined, polished.
Extract from : « The First Violin » by Jessie Fothergill

Not in vain you live, for every passing eye is cheered and refined by the vision.
Extract from : « Essays, First Series » by Ralph Waldo Emerson

She was poor, but cultivated and refined; trained—you know—for knowing, not doing.
Extract from : « Dr. Sevier » by George W. Cable

If we desire the beautiful, we become beautified and refined.
Extract from : « The Romance of the Soul » by Lilian Staveley

He spoke in a refined manner, and was evidently an educated man.
Extract from : « Melomaniacs » by James Huneker

They were of the most refined form, and when enriched were carved with consummate skill.
Extract from : « Architecture » by Thomas Roger Smith

Plowden himself was delicately-tinted and refined of texture.
Extract from : « The Market-Place » by Harold Frederic

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