refinement (n.)
- ablation
- abrasion
- absoluteness
- abstraction
- acculturation
- accuracy
- appreciation
- appreciativeness
- appropriateness
- beautification
- betterment
- breeding
- chasteness
- chastity
- choiceness
- civility
- civilization
- clarification
- clarity
- classicalism
- classicism
- cleaning
- cleansing
- clearness
- comeliness
- concentrate
- concentration
- connoisseurship
- conscientiousness
- correctness
- courtesy
- courtliness
- criticality
- criticalness
- cultivation
- culture
- daintiness
- decoction
- deduction
- delicacy
- detail
- development
- differentia
- differential
- dignity
- diplomacy
- directness
- discernment
- discrimination
- disentanglement
- distillate
- distillation
- distinction
- down
- downiness
- ease
- education
- elaboration
- elegance
- elixir
- elution
- embellishment
- enculturation
- enhancement
- enlightenment
- erosion
- essence
- evolution
- exactitude
- exactness
- excellence
- exquisiteness
- extract
- extraction
- faithfulness
- fastidiousness
- faultlessness
- feel
- feeling
- felicitousness
- felicity
- fidelity
- filtration
- fineness
- finesse
- finish
- fittingness
- flawlessness
- flow
- fluency
- fluff
- fluffiness
- fussiness
- fuzz
- fuzziness
- genteelness
- gentility
- gentleness
- grace
- gracefulness
- gracility
- graciousness
- hairline
- improvement
- infusion
- judiciousness
- ladylikeness
- leaching
- limpidity
- literalism
- literalness
- lucidity
- margin
- maturation
- meticulousness
- minuteness
- minutia
- narrowing
- naturalness
- neatness
- niceness
- nicety
- nuance
- palate
- particularity
- pellucidity
- percolation
- perfection
- perspicuity
- plainness
- polish
- politeness
- politesse
- preciseness
- precision
- propriety
- pubescence
- punctiliousness
- punctuality
- purification
- purity
- quality
- quintessence
- refining
- removal
- restraint
- right
- rightness
- rigidity
- rigidness
- rigor
- rigorousness
- ripening
- satin
- screening
- scrupulousness
- seasoning
- seemliness
- sense
- sensibility
- sensitivity
- separation
- severity
- sifting
- silk
- silkiness
- simplicity
- simplification
- smoothness
- socialization
- softness
- sophistication
- spirit
- spiritualization
- straightforwardness
- straining
- strictness
- stripping
- suaveness
- suavity
- subduction
- sublimation
- subtlety
- subtraction
- tact
- tactfulness
- taste
- tastefulness
- terseness
- textualism
- unaffectedness
- unsnarling
- urbanity
- velvet
- winnowing
The religion most prevalent in our northern colonies is a refinement on the principles of resistance: it is the dissidence of dissent, and the protestantism of the Protestant religion.
