mystique – English noun declension

English noun forms of mystique

Noun: mystique
Singularmystique
Pluralmystiques

Sample Sentences

  • THE LONDON BRIGHTON & SOUTH COAST RAILWAY. By C. Hamilton Ellis. Ian Allan. 30s. [...] In an opening chapter entitled "Portrait", he ends by asking whether there was a mystique about the L.B. & S.C. [1960 December, “New reading on railways”, in Trains Illustrated, page 776:]
  • The mystique spelled out a choice—love, home, children, or other goals and purposes in life. […] The baby boom of the immediate postwar years took place in every country. But it was not permeated, in most other countries, with the mystique of feminine fulfillment. [1963, Betty Friedan, “The Mistaken Choice”, in The Feminine Mystique:]
  • Through male bonding, the subculture of the hunt caught up in the mystique of the chase, the hunting party became a military force, and men discovered that they need not stop at defense: they could go out to hunt for other people's wealth. [1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 134:]
  • Rediker looks not at that bigger picture but at the slave ship itself, as a microeconomy where the captain was chief executive, jailer, accountant, paymaster and disciplinarian, exercising these roles by maintaining, from his spacious captain’s cabin in a very unspacious ship, the mystique of what later military leaders would call command isolation. [2007 October 21, Adam Hochschild, “Voyage of the Damned”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 28 Aug 2017:]

Etymology

Borrowed from French mystique (“a mystic”), from Latin mysticus. See also the doublet mystic. See: French Nouns 'mystique', Latin Nouns 'mysticus'.