Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Vileness; baseness.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete Vileness; baseness.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun obsolete The quality of being
vile orbase .
Etymologies
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Examples
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I gave each my hand; I wish you very well, gentlemen, said I: and I am obliged to your ci-vility in seeing me so far on my journey: especially as you are so kind as to leave me here.
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BUTT (pulling alast stark daniel with alest doog at doorak while too greater than pardon painfully the issue of his mouth diminuen-doing, vility of vilities, he becomes, allasvitally, faint).
Finnegans Wake 2006
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Tom Kean, in a Forum at Monmouth U. called The Politics of C.vility, mourns the loss of bi-partisan civility, friendships across the aisle, and the current impossibility of being elected as a moderate, all forces he says crept up to NJ from D.C. Yesterday's open public forum at the statehouse
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Tom Kean, in a Forum at Monmouth U. called The Politics of C.vility, mourns the loss of bi-partisan civility, friendships across the aisle, and the current impossibility of being elected as a moderate, all forces he says crept up to NJ from D.C. Yesterday's open public forum at the statehouse
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But the vifitor fome - times does not perceive this mark of ci - vility, as the night-cap is frequently hid D, g, l E ed by GoOgle in the Jmoke.
Travels into Norway, Denmark, and Russia, in the years 1788, 1789, 1790, and 1791 1792
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Though the public appeared to be much interefled in my favour, yet as 1 had but few friends, except thofe who out of ci - vility to Mr. Quin cfpoufcd my interefl.
An apology for the life of George Anne Bellamy : late of Covent-Garden theatre 1785
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It is lawful to fpojk to a Woman, efpecially if flic be a Siller, or near Relation, but it is not convenient very often, becaufe malice is fo fliarp, that what is only a point of ci - vility ray be improv'd to fcandal.
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He being cove - "'" tous of Mony, fends word to the A'oie - tian Conful toask the Reafon v. hy he did not fend him an account of the arrival of fuch Perfons, for that he wss ready to fliew them all imaginable llcfpcft and Ci - vility.
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Bot if this pradice of Chriftian Ci - vility be advantageous to us, 'it is no left profitable to others.
Moral Essays: Contain'd in Several Treatises on Many Important Duties 1677
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Debating Obama's Plea for C.vility in D.C. Both Sides Admit Disagreements Need to Be Addressed C.rdially to Make
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