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单词 courtly
释义
Examples from literature
  • So I declined wine upon general principles when it was offered by the courtly host.
  • There was a courtly, old-world sort of look about him.
  • They were all looking at me now, and it seemed as though we had passed from courtly phrases, such as fall readily but with little import from a man's lips, and had come to a graver matter.
  • With a courtly bow I left them.
  • Yet Essex could be generous and knightly with his friends, kind and courtly, at least to his English dependents.
courtly
adjective
uk
/ˈkɔːt.li/
us
/ˈkɔːrt.li/
politeandformalinbehaviour
有礼貌的;有教养的;彬彬有礼的

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courtly
The discernment and deployment of deception and indirection required in courtship prepared men forcourtlyexistence as a whole.
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The mind was the 'zone of engagement' for the dynamics of attachment and detachment which articulated the relations ofcourtlyselves.
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Courtesans sought to make their own way incourtlycircles through the exercise of very real capacities amongst these affiliations.
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The context of thecourtlyworld, however, may be dimly discerned by attention to the dynamics of lovers themselves.
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Only in three instances did a secondary figure show greater width than height; these were seated figures directly facing the primary figure incourtlyscenes.
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Women played a prominent role incourtlymusic-making.
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Elite-courtlycomposition continued in private circles, though changing tastes among the elites made it into somewhat of a minority genre.
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In his view, the group,courtlysociety, is present in this refrain not as participant but as addressee.
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We are now in a position to examine the wine poem's logic of de-sublimation, which counters the logic of thecourtlypanegyric.
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Illumination of differences might further define regional orcourtlystyles.
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In thecourtlyworld, self-restraint was a mark of freedom.
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The musical repertoire used in the religious ceremonies has fared better than itscourtlycounterpart.
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Courtlyliterature, then, needs to be read not as a mirroring but as mediating needs and tensions withincourtlysociety.
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Courtlypoetry, however, must be put in the context of other types of sources.
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One could speak, with the troubadours, of the invention of new traditions which would eventually formalise certain cultural ideals of the aristocracy and become what we call 'courtlylove'.
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