urbanity

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Emily Hamilton is a senior research fellow and director of the Urbanity Project at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University in Arlington.

From Washington Post • Jul. 8, 2022

Urbanity and boxing have always made strange bedfellows.

From BBC • Nov. 23, 2015

Urbanity seemed to have been the mould in which the spirit of this man-of-the-sea had been cast and gentleness was one of his chief characteristics.

From Charlie to the Rescue by Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael)

Urbanity, hellenism, love of all that was exquisite, a predilection for out-of-the-way studies, an æsthetic curiosity, a passion for archæology, and an epicurean taste in gallantry were hereditary qualities of the house of Sperelli.

From The Child of Pleasure by Harding, Georgina

Urbanity is the right word, the name one cannot help using, for the temper of this rustic and provincial poem.

From Medieval English Literature Home University of Modern Knowledge #43 by Ker, W. P. (William Paton)