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courtliness

[ UK /kˈɔːtlinəs/ ]
NOUN
  1. elegance suggestive of a royal court

How To Use courtliness In A Sentence

  • GOP leaders seem cut from the same gentlemanly mold from another age of courtliness: Bennett, McConnell, Hatch, Lugar, Grassley. The April Rasmussen Trust numbers. | RedState
  • He received them with an easy courtliness, which is more noticeable in the old world than in the new. A Splendid Hazard
  • With the braggart dash and swagger of the soldiers of fortune amongst whom Deutsch had served, the headsman presents the Baptist's head with exaggerated courtliness to Salome.
  • She firmly tells her audience that chivalry and courtliness are about real things, that hypocrites and coy flibbertigibbets are without honour.
  • And courtliness certainly involved making a good impression on one's audience, as courtesy still does today.
  • Such conjugal uncourtliness elicits its merited censure in the cool satire of the accompanying motto: -- The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 396, October 31, 1829
  • The occasional courtliness of his manner has produced many forgettable poems, but he has no nostalgia for or tolerance of the disastrous grand narratives of the masters of Modernism.
  • Our sex perhaps must expect to bear a little -- uncourtliness shall I call it? Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 1
  • Your honor," said he, "must pardon the uncourtliness of our ways; but we give you the best we have: and the worthy Lord Loch-awe cannot do more. The Scottish Chiefs
  • Bear with his uncourtliness now, for he is truthful, upright, and noble in soul — qualities rare in a Hellene. A Victor of Salamis
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