formal courtesy
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The campaign began on April 6 when Mr. Brown paid a formal courtesy visit to Queen Elizabeth II, asking her to dissolve Parliament.
From New York Times ● May 6, 2010
At the hands of the Press, II Benito received not even formal courtesy.
From Time Magazine Archive
Entering at once into the spirit of the scene, the duke bowed with the most formal courtesy, while he vouchsafed to Mr. Rooney some few expressions of compliment.
From Jack Hinton The Guardsman by Charles James Lever
Sir, I thank you," he answered, with formal courtesy; "no affinity that can be properly and legally established, will ever be disavowed by me.
From The Two Admirals by James Fenimore Cooper
There is a certain flavour of formal courtesy about them which Englishmen rarely practise, of which Irishmen of my generation, partly anglicised by their education, have lost the trick.
From Gossamer 1915 by George A. Birmingham
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