courtliness

• True, she was not driving along the coast, but she had not anticipated the degree of timelessness that embraced the land; she had driven past small holdings of vines and fruit trees, tended by gnarled men and black-garbed women; she had eaten in small dusty squares where the degree of courtesy and courtliness which had accompanied her sparse meals had entranced her. —  Passionate Relationship
• He received them with an easy courtliness, which is more noticeable in the old world than in the new. —  A Splendid Hazard
• Fillmore, however, strangely adaptive, had taken on a marked grace of manner, his fine stature and mien carrying a dignified courtliness which is said to have won him a handsome compliment from Queen Victoria--a gentleman rotund, well-groomed, conspicuously elegant. —  The Last Leaf Observations, during Seventy-Five Years, of Men and Events in America and Europe
• And courtliness, and the desire of fame, —  Father Payne
• But courtliness, yes. —  The Stars Are Also Fire

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