civility

Speech or behaviour that is fit for civil interactions; politeness, courtesy.

This is an exact Inventory of what we found about the Body of the Man-Mountain, who uſed us with great Civility, and due Reſpect to your Majeſty's Commiſſion.

December 1749 Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield, letter to his son The insolent civility of a proud man is, if possible, more shocking than his rudeness could be.

An individual act or expression of polite behaviour; a courtesy.

Mr Lovelace received from every one those civilities which were due to his birth […]

The state or fact of being civilized; civilization.

Monarchies have risen from barbarism to civility, and fallen again to ruin.

A civil office; a civil capacity.

For what an enormity is this in a chriſtian realme to ſerue in a ciuility, hauinge the profyt of a Prouoſtſhip and a Deanrye, and a Perſonage? But I wil tel you what is lyke to come of it. It wil bring the clergy ſhortly into a very ſlauery.