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noun

Urbanity n.

The quality or state of being urbane; civility or courtesy of manners; politeness; refinement. "The marquis did the honors of his house with the urbanity of his country."

Polite wit; facetiousness. (Obs.) "Raillery in the sauce of civil entertainment; and without some such tincture of urbanity, good humor falters."

Synonyms: Politeness; suavity; affability; courtesy.

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"Urbanity" Quotes from Famous Books

... in the flesh—and, worst of all, regular colonial experiences of servants—one went off at a day's notice—and for two or three days we had nobody but Rex's orderly, such a handy, imperturbable soldier, who made beds, cooked the dinner, hung pictures, and blew the organ with equal urbanity. He didn't know much—and in the imperfect state of our cuisine had few appliances—but he affected to be au fait at everything—and what he had not got, he "annexed" from somewhere else. One of our maids uniformly ...

— Juliana Horatia Ewing And Her Books • Horatia K. F. Eden

... they were intimate companions; in reality, no man and woman in all England were wider apart. From his elevation he looked down on her with commiseration that was heightened by curiosity and amazement; and she daily writhed under his gracious condescension and passionless urbanity; under her own consciousness of inferiority and consequent self-scorn. He could no more sympathize with her petty aims, than she with the high views and ambitions; and conjugal sympathy was far more necessary to her than to him. His studious friends and clever children afforded him an ...

— A Book About Lawyers • John Cordy Jeaffreson

... he commends public worship so long as it is not made a substitute for spiritual religion. Liturgies are evil, and tithes abominable. His exposition of social duty tempers Puritan strictness with Cavalier high-breeding, and the urbanity of a man of the world. Of his motives for publication and method of composition ...

— Life of John Milton • Richard Garnett

... necessary consequence of an elevated material and intellectual one; and therefore it is that we find the Dane distinguished for kindness, urbanity, and regard for others,[189] and this is found in all portions of society. In visiting the Museum of Northern Antiquities, which is open to the public, free ...

— The trade, domestic and foreign • Henry Charles Carey

... presence of his name on the title-page; and now that reputation has mellowed into memory, even the word of interpretation seems superfluous. Mr. Warner wrote out of a clear, as well as a full mind, and lucidity of style was part of that harmonious charm of sincerity and urbanity which made him one of the most intelligible and companionable of ...

— Baddeck and That Sort of Thing • Charles Dudley Warner

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