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comparative more courteous, superlative most courteous
Showing regard or thought for others; especially, displaying good manners or etiquette. quotations examples
Nectar ran / In courteous fountains to all cups outreach'd; / And plunder'd vines, teeming exhaustless, pleach'd / New growth about each shell and pendent lyre; [...]
1818, John Keats, “Book III”, in Endymion: A Poetic Romance, London: […] [T. Miller] for Taylor and Hessey, […], page 149, lines 932–935