Definition for IN-CI-VIL'I-TY

IN-CI-VIL'I-TY, n. [Fr. incivilité.]

  1. Want of courtesy; rudeness of manners toward others; impoliteness. Tillotson.
  2. Any act of rudeness or ill breeding; with a plural. Loud laughter and uncomely jests in respectable company, are incivilities and indecencies.

Return to page 56 of the letter “I”.