Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for IN-CI-VIL'I-TY
IN-CI-VIL'I-TY, n. [Fr. incivilité.]
- Want of courtesy; rudeness of manners toward others; impoliteness. Tillotson.
- Any act of rudeness or ill breeding; with a plural. Loud laughter and uncomely jests in respectable company, are incivilities and indecencies.
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