What does "incivility" mean?
Incivility: Any act of rudeness or ill breeding. Uncomely jests, loud talking and jeering, which, in civil account, are called indecencies and incivilities. Jer. Taylor.
Additional senses
- 2.Want of civilization; a state of rudeness or barbarism. [R.] Sir W. Raleigh.
Sources
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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