INCIVILITY

n.

3 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

1.
n.

The quality or state of being uncivil; want of courtesy; rudeness of manner; impoliteness. Shak. Tillotson.

2.
n.

Any act of rudeness or ill breeding. Uncomely jests, loud talking and jeering, which, in civil account, are called indecencies and incivilities. Jer. Taylor.

3.
n.

Want of civilization; a state of rudeness or barbarism. [R.] Sir W. Raleigh.

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