civillity
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civillity (countable and uncountable, plural civillities)
- Archaic spelling of civility.
- a. 1720, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, [Letter]; republished as The Complete Letters of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: 1708-1720, Oxford University Press, 1965, page 357:
- The whole shew lasted near 8 hours, to my great sorrow, who was heartily tir’d, thô I was in the House of the Widow of the Capitan Bassa (Admiral), who refresh’d me with Coffée, Sweetmeats, Sherbet, etc., with all possible Civillity.