overcivilityn.
/ˌəʊvəsᵻˈvɪlᵻti/, U.S. /ˈˌoʊvərsəˈvɪlᵻdi/ Excessive or exaggerated civility.
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1693 Vertue Rewarded 35 Another would think to gain me by his over-civility, and he'd come a great way just to ask me how I did, and how my Father and Mother did, ask me what a Clock it was.
1766 O. Goldsmith Vicar of Wakefield II. ii. 42 I dont believe she has got any money by her over-civility.
1838 in R. R. Madden Lit. Life & Corr. Ctess Blessington (1855) II. 89 I inclose you my lines on the portrait of Lady Fitzharris, exactly twenty; and not, I hope, Celia-Delias in point of over-civility.
1891 Murray's Mag. Sept. 407 This would account at once for her armour of stiffness with the covering of over-civility to hide it.
1997 Christian Cent. (Nexis) 5 Mar. 255 In politics, civility is an overrated virtue. Democracy needs controversy and overcivility avoids it.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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