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Definition of Politenesses
1. politeness [n] - See also: politeness
Lexicographical Neighbors of Politenesses
Literary usage of Politenesses
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Routledge's Every Boy's Annual by Edmund Routledge (1886)
"... merely answering the interruption with a smile, "ought to be unusually particular
about keeping up all the politenesses of civilized life, ..."
2. Annual Report by Illinois Farmers' Institute (1899)
"Small inexpensive brightness, in the way of pictures and magazines will lie in
wait to catch and please the eye and mind ; little politenesses of manner and ..."
3. The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents: Travels and Explorations of the by Reuben Gold Thwaites, Jesuits (1898)
"... others do not cease to protest that they believe, with a thousand politenesses
and flatteries, which end [8] at last only in asking for something or in ..."
4. Annual Report by Hawaiian Evangelical Association (1908)
"... manners and the numberless little politenesses that seem so small and yet are
so great, are constantly taught and practiced. The hearty Thank you' and ..."
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