Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for DIS-COURT'E-SY
DIS-COURT'E-OUS-LYDIS-COURT'SHIP
DIS-COURT'E-SY, n. [dis and courtesy.]
Incivility; rudeness of behavior or language; ill manners; act of disrespect. Be calm in arguing; for fierceness makes / Error a fault, and truth discourtesy. – Herbert.
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