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incivility|ɪnsɪˈvɪlɪtɪ|
[ad. F. incivilité (1426 in Hatz.-Darm.), ad. late L. incīvīlitāt-em, f. incīvīlis; see prec. and -ity.]
The quality or condition of being incivil or uncivil.
†1. Want of civilization; uncivilized condition; savageness, barbarism. Obs.
1584R. Scot Discov. Witchcr. xi. iii. (1886) 153 The incivilitie and cruell sacrifices of popish preests. 1612Brerewood Lang. & Relig. xiii. 118 In their incivility and many barbarous properties, they [Americans] resemble the old and rude Tartars. 1663Blair Autobiog. iii. (1848) 57 The northern Irishes remaining obdured in their idleness and incivility. 1774Warton Hist. Eng. Poetry xvi. I. 423 The licentiousness of Boccacio's tales..was not so much the consequence of popular incivility, as it was owing to a particular event of the writer's age. 1811Henry & Isabella I. Pref. 5 That barbarous relic of feudal incivility, duelling.
†2. Want of good manners or good breeding; ill-bred behaviour. Obs.
1590Shakes. Com. Err. iv. iv. 49 Curt... Is not your husband mad? Adri. His inciuility confirmes no lesse. 1603Holland Plutarch's Mor. 42 Cowardise, follie, and perverse incivilitie, be the defects of learning, and are meere ignorance. 1650Bulwer Anthropomet. 113 They account it the greatest incivility in the world to let any thing fall in eating. 1673Rules Civility 118 'Tis gross incivility to begin any person of Honour's health, and to address it to himself.
3. Ill-bred, uncivil, or uncourteous behaviour towards others; want of civility or politeness; discourtesy, rudeness.
1612T. Taylor Comm. Titus iii. 2 It would be thought too much inciuilitie to stay a man from shooting his venomed arrowes. 1684Contempl. St. Man ii. x. (1699) 236 The irreverence and great incivility towards God in a Mortal Sin. 1769Ld. Rochford in Ellis Orig. Lett. Ser. ii. IV. 521 The Russian Ambassador appears personally satisfied with the excuses made for personal incivility, but considers his Court is highly insulted. 1849Macaulay Hist. Eng. iv. I. 454 At Council he [Guildford] was treated by Jeffreys with marked incivility.
b. An act of rudeness or ill-breeding.
1652H. Cogan tr. Scudery's Ibrahim ii. iv. 76, I had done an hundred incivilities to satisfie her. a1693Ludlow Mem. I. 88 (R.) No person offered me the least incivility. |