Definition for AF-FA-BIL'I-TY

AF-FA-BIL'I-TY, n. [See Affable.]

The quality of being affable; readiness to converse; civility and courteousness, in receiving others, and in conversation; condescension in manners. Affability of countenance is that mildness of aspect, which invites to free social intercourse.

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