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discourteousness

noun as in incivility

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And so ever since, even as the goat endured public discourteousness for 60 years, he praised God, reciting every morning and night the “Our Father,” a “Hail Mary” and a couplet of his own: “Make me worthy of your love; make my love worthy of you.”

Charity suffereth long—μακροθυμει—it bears patiently with other men’s   defects of temper, discourteousness of behaviour, and awkwardness of manner; and is kind, gentle, and obliging—χρηστευεται.

Though she small worth in Tristram's sight possess,   Nor any, saving Yseult, please his sight,   Nor other dame to love or to caress,   The philtre, drunk erewhile, allows the knight;   Yet, for he would that foul discourteousness   Of Clodion with a fit revenge requite,   He cries, `I deem it were foul wrong and sore,   If so such beauty I should shut the door.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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