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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Courtliness

Courtliness \Court"li*ness\ (-l?-n?s), n. [From Courtly.] The quality of being courtly; elegance or dignity of manners.

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courtliness

n. The quality of being courtly; refinement of manners.

WordNet
courtliness

n. elegance suggestive of a royal court

Usage examples of "courtliness".

Burgess had met Lucio Giorgi before, and had not disliked the man: he carried his age with an old-world courtliness which Burgess admired.

She sidled up to the bar and unsmilingly snatched the pouch of moonmist Keeper offered her with mock courtliness.

Laurence, hale and hearty as ever, was quite as much improved as the others by his foreign tour, for the crustiness seemed to be nearly gone, and the old-fashioned courtliness had received a polish which made it kindlier than ever.

He was rewarded by a little more laughter than had greeted his presenter's parodic courtliness—which had masked a real courtliness, he knew, designed to soothe the touch of anxiety Ms Hyndman had mistakenly perceived as stage fright.