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Civility

CIVILITY, n. 1. The state of being civilized; refinement of manners; applied to nations; as distinguished from the rudeness of barbarous nations. 2. Good breeding; politeness; complaisance; courtesy; decorum o...

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CIVILITY, n.

1. The state of being civilized; refinement of manners; applied to nations; as distinguished from the rudeness of barbarous nations.

2. Good breeding; politeness; complaisance; courtesy; decorum of behavior in the treatment of others, accompanied with kind offices, and attention to their wants and desires. Civility respects manners or external deportment, and in the plural, civilities denote acts of politeness.

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