Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for PO-LITE-NESS
PO-LITE-NESS, n.
- Polish or elegance of manners; gentility; good breeding; ease and gracefulness of manners, united with a desire to please others and a careful attention to their wants and wishes.
- Courteousness; complaisance; obliging attentions.
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