A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 2002 (DOST Vol. XI).
This entry has not been updated since then but may contain minor corrections and revisions.
Quotation dates: 1499-1549
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Urbanité, -tie, n. [e.m.E. urbanitie (1547), urbanity (a1566), F. urbanité (13th-14th c.), L. urbanitāt-.] a. Smoothness, elegance. b. Refinement, civility. c. (The condition or character of) city life. —a. a1500 Bk. Chess 1668.
With the gret vrbanite Of rethorye expert suld he be —b. 1535 Stewart 29982.
Ane man he wes of greit vrbanitie —c. 1549 Complaynte of Scotland 43/16.
The maist anciant nobilis … detestit vrbanite and desirit to lyue in villagis and landuart tounis
