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affability - definition and meaning
Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
noun noun Synonyms Sociability, approachableness, accessibility, urbanity, complaisance, suavity, comity, amenity, friendliness, openness.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
noun
from Wiktionary , Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
noun state or quality of being affable , friendly , or approachable .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
noun
Etymologies
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affable + -ity
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-- Gothic affability is the mode you think proper to adopt, the condescension of a Baron, not the civility of a liberal man (47).
Editorial Notes to 'Letter to the Women of England' 2007
But they exude a certain affability on-screen and off.
The Ferrett Is An Idiot 2004
The words came as easily from his lips as if his practice in affability had been of the very longest.
The Filigree Ball 1903
We must now consider the friendliness which is called affability , and the opposite vices which are flattery and quarreling.
Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province Aquinas Thomas
Therefore affability , which is what we mean by friendship, is a special virtue.
Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province Aquinas Thomas
He was a silent, rather sullen man, and you felt that his affability was a duty that he imposed upon himself Christianly; he was by nature reserved and even morose.
The Trembling of a Leaf Little Stories of the South Sea Islands 1919
Our affability is the armor that protects the inner sensitive personality.
The Joys of Being a Woman and Other Papers 1918
When afterwards, in the course of our gregarious walk, I found myself for half an hour, not perhaps without another manoeuvre, at the great man's side, the result of his affability was a still livelier desire that he should not remain in ignorance of the peculiar justice I had done him.
Embarrassments Henry James 1879
When afterwards, in the course of our gregarious walk, I found myself for half an hour, not perhaps without another manoeuvre, at the great man's side, the result of his affability was a still livelier desire that he shouldn't remain in ignorance of the peculiar justice I had done him.
The Figure in the Carpet Henry James 1879
His affability was a welcome change from the stridency of Eliot Spitzer, yet Paterson quickly proved an unreliable steward.
NY Post: News 2010
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