discourtesy

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

DISCOURTESY, noun Discurtesy. [dis and courtesy.] Incivility; rudeness of behavior or language; ill manners; act of disrespect. Be calm in arguing; for fierceness makes error a fault, and truth discourtesy
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