Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2013 23:19:31 +0200
Quote:
- Braingle's Mentalrobics
Vocabulary : Word of the Day : Comity
http://www.braingle.com/mind/index.php?id=593;r=1306
Text:
- com-i-ty
noun :: Mildness and suavity of manners; courtesy between equals; friendly civility
"I believe I had no money to buy them, but there was an open account, or a comity, between the printer and the bookseller, and I must have been allowed a certain discretion in regard to getting books." -- Howells,William Dean
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