All 23 Uses of

elegant

in

Pride and Prejudice

I never saw such capacity, and taste, and application, and elegance, as you describe united.†
p. 39.8

elegance = the quality of being refined and tasteful

They repulsed every attempt of Mrs. Bennet at conversation, and by so doing threw a languor over the whole party, which was very little relieved by the long speeches of Mr. Collins, who was complimenting Mr. Bingley and his sisters on the elegance of their entertainment, and the hospitality and politeness which had marked their behavior to their guests.†
p. 100.7

I do assure you, sir, that I have no pretensions whatever to that kind of elegance which consists in tormenting a respectable man.†
p. 106.6

I really do not think Georgiana Darcy has her equal for beauty, elegance, and accomplishments; and the affection she inspires in Louisa and myself is heightened into something still more interesting, from the hope we dare entertain of her being hereafter our sister.†
p. 116.0

Lady Catherine is far from requiring that elegance of dress in us which becomes herself and her daughter.†
p. 158.0 *

The rooms were lofty and handsome, and their furniture suitable to the fortune of its proprietor; but Elizabeth saw, with admiration of his taste, that it was neither gaudy nor uselessly fine; with less of splendour, and more real elegance, than the furniture of Rosings.†
p. 236.5

On reaching the spacious lobby above they were shown into a very pretty sitting-room, lately fitted up with greater elegance and lightness than the apartments below; and were informed that it was but just done to give pleasure to Miss Darcy, who had taken a liking to the room when last at Pemberley.†
p. 239.6

"This is a parade," he cried, "which does one good; it gives such an elegance to misfortune!†
p. 284.5

Elizabeth did all she could to shield him from the frequent notice of either, and was ever anxious to keep him to herself, and to those of her family with whom he might converse without mortification; and though the uncomfortable feelings arising from all this took from the season of courtship much of its pleasure, it added to the hope of the future; and she looked forward with delight to the time when they should be removed from society so little pleasing to either, to all the comfort and elegance of their family party at Pemberley.†
p. 363.9

Elizabeth passed the chief of the night in her sister's room, and in the morning had the pleasure of being able to send a tolerable answer to the inquiries which she very early received from Mr. Bingley by a housemaid, and some time afterwards from the two elegant ladies who waited on his sisters.†
p. 41.2

Her figure was elegant, and she walked well; but Darcy, at whom it was all aimed, was still inflexibly studious.†
p. 55.0

They arise chiefly from what is passing at the time, and though I sometimes amuse myself with suggesting and arranging such little elegant compliments as may be adapted to ordinary occasions, I always wish to give them as unstudied an air as possible.†
p. 67.1

He protested that, except Lady Catherine and her daughter, he had never seen a more elegant woman; for she had not only received him with the utmost civility, but even pointedly included him in her invitation for the next evening, although utterly unknown to her before.†
p. 73.7

As I must therefore conclude that you are not serious in your rejection of me, I shall choose to attribute it to your wish of increasing my love by suspense, according to the usual practice of elegant females.†
p. 106.5

Do not consider me now as an elegant female, intending to plague you, but as a rational creature, speaking the truth from her heart.†
p. 106.7

To such perseverance in wilful self-deception Elizabeth would make no reply, and immediately and in silence withdrew; determined, if he persisted in considering her repeated refusals as flattering encouragement, to apply to her father, whose negative might be uttered in such a manner as to be decisive, and whose behavior at least could not be mistaken for the affectation and coquetry of an elegant female.†
p. 107.9

The envelope contained a sheet of elegant, little, hot-pressed paper, well covered with a lady's fair, flowing hand; and Elizabeth saw her sister's countenance change as she read it, and saw her dwelling intently on some particular passages.†
p. 114.3

Mrs. Gardiner, who was several years younger than Mrs. Bennet and Mrs. Phillips, was an amiable, intelligent, elegant woman, and a great favorite with all her Longbourn nieces.†
p. 137.7

A man in distressed circumstances has not time for all those elegant decorums which other people may observe.†
p. 151.6

The marriage of a daughter, which had been the first object of her wishes since Jane was sixteen, was now on the point of accomplishment, and her thoughts and her words ran wholly on those attendants of elegant nuptials, fine muslins, new carriages, and servants.†
p. 294.1

Nor was her respect for him, though it made her more quiet, at all likely to make her more elegant.†
p. 363.5

Definitions:

(1) (elegant as in: an elegant gown)
refined and tasteful in appearance, behavior or style
(2) (elegant as in: as elegant equation)
a solution that is simpler (and often more comprehensive) than most would anticipate