courtesy
/ˈkɝɾəsi/ adjective C2- Given or done as a polite gesture. · We paid a courtesy visit to the new neighbors.
- Supplied free of charge. · The event planners offered courtesy tickets for the reporters.
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Chandler assisted her to her feet with instant and solicitous courtesy.
“Come then, Miss Marian,” said the young architect, gaily, but with perfect courtesy; “you will not have far to walk.
Darcy, he stopped, with a bow of superior courtesy, to compliment him on his dancing and his partner.
Nothing less than the complaisance of a courtier could have borne without anger such treatment: but Sir William’s good-breeding carried him through it all; and though he begged leave to be positive as to the truth of his information, he listened to all their impertinence with the most forbearing courtesy.
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