incivility

名词 n.
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英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The state of being uncivil; lack of courtesy; rudeness in manner. uncountable
    — Courtezan. How say you now? is not your husband mad? / Adriana. His incivility confirms no less.
  2. Any act of rudeness or ill-breeding. countable
    — Latona, in her flight from Juno, is churlishly intreated by the Lycian pesants, and denied the publique benefit of water: for which incivility these bawling Clownes are changed into croaking froggs, and confined unto that Lake for ever.
  3. Lack of civilization; a state of rudeness or barbarism. uncountable
    — BEAT on, proud billows; Boreas blow; / Swell, curled waves, high as Jove's roof; / Your incivility doth ſhow, / That innocence is tempeſt proof; / Though ſurly Nereus frown, my thoughts are calm; / Then ſtrike, Affliction, for thy wounds are balm. [Attributed to Roger L'Estrange (1616–1704).]

词形变化

incivilities plural

词汇关系

相关词
incivil discourtesy disrespect impoliteness rudeness uncourteousness unmannerliness

词源

From Middle French incivilité, from Late Latin incivilitas (“incivility”), from Latin incivilis (“impolite, uncivil”), from in- (privative prefix) + civilis (“belonging to a citizen, civic, political, urbane, courteous, civil”) (from civis (“a citizen”)), equivalent to in- + civility.
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