uncourtliness
English
editEtymology
editNoun
edituncourtliness (uncountable)
- Lack of courtliness
- Synonyms: rudeness, rusticity, coarseness
- 1710, John Dryden, The Whig-Examiner, number 5:
- notwithstanding the uncourtliness of their phrases , the sense was very honest
Antonyms
editReferences
edit- “uncourtliness”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.