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unpoˈliteness
[un-1 12, 5 b.]
†1. Lack of culture or refinement. Obs.
1702Echard Eccl. Hist. 20 People of great Courage..and of no less Plainess and Unpoliteness. 1728Morgan Algiers I. iii. 49 A People so prone to Unpoliteness as were the natural Africans.
2. Want of politeness.
1707Refl. upon Ridicule (1717) I. 28 Unpoliteness is a Vice that gives the World a Right to complain of us. 1748Richardson Clarissa (1811) III. 187, I have just carried unpoliteness far enough to make her afraid of me. 1858Carlyle in Froude Life in London (1844) II. 197 The shocking unpoliteness of breaking an express promise. 1880Athenæum 5 June 725 Their own unpoliteness and ill temper.
†3. Inelegance. Obs.
1725Blackwall Sacr. Class. (1727) I. 80 Sad outcries are made of the unpoliteness of the style. |