cordiality
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
- Rhymes: -ælɪti
Noun[edit]
cordiality (countable and uncountable, plural cordialities)
- The quality of being cordial.
- 1839, Edgar Allan Poe, The Fall of the House of Usher[1]:
- Upon my entrance, Usher rose from a sofa on which he had been lying at full length, and greeted me with a vivacious warmth which had much in it, I at first thought, of an overdone cordiality—of the constrained effort of the ennuyé man of the world.
- 1930, Evelyn Waugh, chapter V, in Vile Bodies, New York: Back Bay Books, published 1999:
- Adam gave her—the spaniel, not Mrs. Florin—a gentle prod with his foot and a lump of sugar. She licked his shoe with evident cordiality. Adam was not above feeling flattered by friendliness in dogs.
- A friendly utterance.
- 1931, E. F. Benson, chapter 5, in Mapp and Lucia[2]:
- Lucia rivalled these cordialities with equal fervour and about as much sincerity.
- to exchange cordialities with people
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Translations[edit]
quality of being cordial
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