quaintness

English

quaintness (countable and uncountable, plural quaintnesses)

(obsolete) Cunning; craftiness.
(obsolete) Skill, artfulness.
(obsolete) Primness, fastidiousness, preciousness.
- 1603, John Florio, transl.; Michel de Montaigne, chapter 10, in The Essayes, […], book II, printed at London: By Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], OCLC 946730821:
  As for good Terence, I allow the quaintnesse [transl. mignardise] and grace of his Latine tongue, and judge him wonderfull conceited and apt […].
The state or fact of being quaint; having old-fashioned charm.

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