Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Relation to the heart.
  • noun Genuinely kind feeling, especially the expression of such feeling; sympathetic geniality; hearty warmth; heartiness.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun obsolete Relation to the heart.
  • noun Sincere affection and kindness; warmth of regard; heartiness.

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  • noun The practice of being cordial.

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  • noun a cordial disposition

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Examples

  • Larsen had turned the liquor loose among his men surprised me, but he evidently knew their psychology and the best method of cementing in cordiality, what had begun in bloodshed.

    Chapter 26 2010

  • That Wolf Larsen had turned the liquor loose among his men surprised me, but he evidently knew their psychology and the best method of cementing in cordiality what had begun in bloodshed.

    Chapter 26 1904

  • Tossed aside in all the cordiality were the looming and tougher questions of future import: Vietnam and Asia, rumors of Soviet moves in Cuba, the budget, and the fall elections.

    Going Home to Glory David Eisenhower 2010

  • His cordiality was a complete surprise to Alyosha.

    The Brothers Karamazov 2003

  • There must be heartiness in the expression, in the smile, in the hand-shake, in the cordiality, which is unmistakable.

    Pushing to the Front Orison Swett Marden 1887

  • She was merely making use of a current phrase, as was frequently her custom, and attributing no precise meaning to it, unless it were that wine vaguely suggested to her mind the idea of cordiality and the hope that after her deliverance she would see the

    The Life of Joan of Arc, Vol. 1 and 2 Anatole France 1884

  • He recalled the cordiality of Reine's reception, and how she had spoken of the difficulties he should have to encounter.

    A Woodland Queen — Complete Andr�� Theuriet 1870

  • His cordiality was a complete surprise to Alyosha.

    The Brothers Karamazov Fyodor Dostoyevsky 1851

  • As to reform, the Parliament was naturally slow (did any political assembly in the world ever divest itself of its own privileges without pressure from without?); but as to the abolition of the Penal Laws there was a cordiality which is remarkable, and which is seldom referred to by the Nationalist writers of the present day when they discourse about the Penal Laws.

    Is Ulster Right? Anonymous

  • "The same kind of cordiality that you would show to the cottagers?"

    A Traveler from Altruria: Romance William Dean Howells 1878

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