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CIVILITIES

Definition: CIVILITIES

CIVILITIES

Plural

1. Of Civillty

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "CIVILITIES" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1615. (references)


Crosswords: CIVILITIES

English words defined with "CIVILITIES": To curry favor. (references)

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Commercial Usage: CIVILITIES

DomainTitle

Books

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Use in Literature: CIVILITIES

TitleAuthorQuote

Cymon and Iphigenia

John Dryden

Love taught him shame; and shame, with love at strife, Soon taught the sweet civilities of life.

Gulliver's Travels

Swift, Jonathan

The Emperor of Blefuscu having taken three days to consult, returned an answer consisting of many civilities and excuses.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Usage Frequency: CIVILITIES

"CIVILITIES" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "CIVILITIES" is used about 14 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (plural)100%1493,893

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Modern Translation: CIVILITIES

Language Translations for "CIVILITIES"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

German

  

Höflichkeiten (civilness, courteousness, courtesies). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

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Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: CIVILITIES

Derivations

Words ending with "CIVILITIES": incivilities. (additional references)


Misspellings

"CIVILITIES" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: cervicitis, civilitie. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: CIVILITIES

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-e-i-i-i-i-l-s-t-v"

-2 letters: civilise.

-3 letters: elicits, ileitis.

-4 letters: cities, civets, civies, clevis, elicit, evicts, iciest, livest, stelic, vilest.

-5 letters: ceils, celts, cesti, cites, civet, civie, civil, clits, evict, evils, islet, istle, ivies, licit, lives, slice, stile, telic, tiles, veils, vices, visit.

 Words containing the letters "c-e-i-i-i-i-l-s-t-v"
 

+2 letters: incivilities.

 

+4 letters: convivialities, diverticulitis, veridicalities.

 

+5 letters: cultivabilities, invincibilities, provincialities.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: CIVILITIES


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

43 49 56 49 4C 49 54 49 45 53

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

-.-.    ..    ...-    ..    .-..    ..    -    ..    .    ...

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000011 01001001 01010110 01001001 01001100 01001001 01010100 01001001 01000101 01010011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#67 &#73 &#86 &#73 &#76 &#73 &#84 &#73 &#69 &#83

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0043 0049 0056 0049 004C 0049 0054 0049 0045 0053

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

37435643464354433953

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Non-English Dictionaries with "CIVILITIES"

LanguageCoverageLanguage Translations

German

Übersetzung, Wörterbuch, Definition

English

Dictionary, Definition, Translationenglisch
 


INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Quotations: Fiction
5. Usage Frequency
6. Translations: Modern
7. Derivations
8. Anagrams
9. Orthography
10. Bibliography


  

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