[f. next.] Lack of courtliness; uncourtly behavior.

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1668.  H. More, Div. Dial., V. xxi. (1713), 474. A great piece of roughness, rudeness and uncourtliness.

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1710.  Addison, Whig Exam., No. 5, ¶ 11. Notwithstanding the uncourtliness of their phrases the sense was very honest.

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1748.  Richardson, Clarissa (1811), I. v. 34. Our sex perhaps expect to hear a little—uncourtliness shall I call it? from the husband.

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