Meaning of courtier-like | Babel Free

Definitions

Adjective. [C1]

Examples

“[…] in the courtier-like civility of the old Baron, he ſaw nothing but the undiſtinguiſhing manners of a perſon who received every one alike, whom he had no immediate intereſt in conciliating, and who was generally polite, but who, if he never ſaw him again, would forget⟳ he had ſeen him at all; […]”

“As Benedict ſays, "an oak with but one green leaf on it, would have⟳ refuſed" to fetch⟳ and carry⟳ in this cur or courtier-like manner.”

“The success of great scholars and thinkers is commonly a courtier-like success, not kingly, not manly. They make⟳ shift to live⟳ merely by conformity, practically as their fathers did, and are in no sense⟳ the progenitors of a noble race⟳ of men.”

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