courtier-like

comparative more courtier-like · superlative most courtier-like

1. alternativeAlternative form of courtierlike.

   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.

   1795, [Samuel Jackson] Pratt, “Letter XXXVII. To the Same [the Honourable Mrs. B.].”, in Gleanings through Wales, Holland and Westphalia. With Views of Peace and War at Home and Abroad. […], volume II, London: […] T[homas] N[orton] Longman, and L. B. Seeley, […], →OCLC, page 203

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   […] 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; […]

   1794, Charlotte Smith, chapter IX, in The Banished Man. […], volume I, London: […] T[homas] Cadell, Jun. and W[illiam] Davies, (successors to Mr. [Thomas] Cadell) […], →OCLC, page 190

   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.

   1854, Henry David Thoreau, chapter 1, in Walden