Friday, 14 June 2013

Vocabulary : Word of the Day : Comity

com-i-ty



noun :: Mildness and suavity of manners; courtesy between equals; friendly civility



"I believe I had no money to buy them, but there was an open account, or a comity, between the printer and the bookseller, and I must have been allowed a certain discretion in regard to getting books." -- Howells,William Dean

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