civility

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim Speech or behaviour that is fit for civil interactions; politeness, courtesy.

   “This is an exact Inventory of what we found about the Body of the Man-Mountain, who uſed us with great Civility, and due Reſpect to your Majeſty's Commiſſion.”

2. isim An individual act or expression of polite behaviour; a courtesy.

   “Mr Lovelace received from every one those civilities which were due to his birth […]”

3. isim The state or fact of being civilized; civilization.

   “Monarchies have risen from barbarism to civility, and fallen again to ruin.”

4. isim A civil office; a civil capacity.

   “For what an enormity is this in a chriſtian realme to ſerue in a ciuility, hauinge the profyt of a Prouoſtſhip and a Deanrye, and a Perſonage? But I wil tel you what is lyke to come of it. It wil bring the clergy ſhortly into a very ſlauery.”