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COURTLINESS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does courtliness mean?
• COURTLINESS (noun)
The noun COURTLINESS has 1 sense:
1. elegance suggestive of a royal court
Familiarity information: COURTLINESS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Elegance suggestive of a royal court
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("courtliness" is a kind of...):
elegance (a refined quality of gracefulness and good taste)
Derivation:
courtly (refined or imposing in manner or appearance; befitting a royal court)
Context examples
There was a delicious irony in the offer, in the courtliness of giving preference on such a ghastly occasion.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
Mr. Laurence, hale and hearty as ever, was quite as much improved as the others by his foreign tour, for the crustiness seemed to be nearly gone, and the old-fashioned courtliness had received a polish which made it kindlier than ever.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
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