Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The quality of being courteous; complaisance.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The quality of being courteous; politeness; courtesy.
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- noun The characteristic of being
courteous .
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Examples
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Its derivation from _courtoisie_, courteousness, that is, behaviour like that at court, at once shows that it was primarily the reverence paid to a monarch.
Essays on Education and Kindred Subjects Everyman's Library Herbert Spencer 1861
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Otherwise, week after week, I have been delighted with the courteousness of the students and mentors, as well as the high level at which they function.
Robert David Jaffee: Ron Artest: Hero for the Mentally Ill and Everyone Else Robert David Jaffee 2010
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He would have been confounded and wounded by the knowledge that some people, including Maddy, suspected that a vein of self-righteousness ran beneath the surface of his public persona, an imperiousness disguised by his elaborate courteousness but hinted at by his detached formality.
O: A Presidential Novel Anonymous 2011
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His affability and courteousness in several candidate debates made their gentlest criticism of him look unreasonable and indecorous.
O: A Presidential Novel Anonymous 2011
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His affability and courteousness in several candidate debates made their gentlest criticism of him look unreasonable and indecorous.
O: A Presidential Novel Anonymous 2011
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Otherwise, week after week, I have been delighted with the courteousness of the students and mentors, as well as the high level at which they function.
Robert David Jaffee: Ron Artest: Hero for the Mentally Ill and Everyone Else Robert David Jaffee 2010
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Whenever I whine about the deteriorated observance of courteousness, our mannerism as a community and wonder if this is to be blamed on the movies or our upbringing, I get nowhere.
Fahad Faruqui: The Lasting Fragrance Of Courtesy Fahad Faruqui 2011
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Otherwise, week after week, I have been delighted with the courteousness of the students and mentors, as well as the high level at which they function.
Robert David Jaffee: Ron Artest: Hero for the Mentally Ill and Everyone Else Robert David Jaffee 2010
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Benjamin Bratt as Che models all the anger, rage, hate and homophobia that could possibly live under the placid courteousness of many people we meet.
Archive 2009-01-01 Alice Walker Blog Administrator 2009
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He would have been confounded and wounded by the knowledge that some people, including Maddy, suspected that a vein of self-righteousness ran beneath the surface of his public persona, an imperiousness disguised by his elaborate courteousness but hinted at by his detached formality.
O: A Presidential Novel Anonymous 2011
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