affability

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

AFFABIL'ITY, noun [See Affable.] The quality of being affable; readiness to converse; civility and courteousness, in receiving others, and in conversation; condescension in manners. affability of countenance is that mildness of aspect, which invites to free social intercourse.
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