Word: courteousness
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...dear friend, were always so nice and courteous...
...Charles E. Heitman of the Christian Science Committee on Publication wrote a courteous letter to the editors of TIME, referring to quotations from London papers published in these columns by way of contrast with The Monitor's story...
...admitted to polite company. Even men of the same tongue are apt to get into difficulties, as Americans in England have discovered with such words as "bloody" and others that appear equally innocent. Lore Robert Cecil, when he was being entertained in a Boston club, meant only courteous approval when he remarked "What a homely room you have here!"--and he found it difficult to understand the coolness of his hosts during the rest of the evening...
Fifty years ago Mother Advocate found before her the "pleasant though unexpected task--one, however, none the less pleasant from its unexpectedness--of welcoming to the green fields and pastures new of college literature another aspirant for favor," and it was a very courteous greeting that she extended to the young "Magenta." If the child is father to the man the two are often strangely dissimilar. . . . But if the present paper and its editors inherit few features or characteristics from 1873 they do inherit--at least on such formal occasions as birthdays--the excellent good will of Mother Advocate...
...admitted to polite company. Even men of the same tongue are apt to got into difficulties, as Americans in England have discovered with such words as "bloody" and others that appear equally innocent. Lord Robert Cecil, when he was being entertained in a Boston club, meant only courteous approval when he remarked "What a homely room you have here!" and he found it difficult to understand the coolness of his hosts during the rest of the evening...