December 11, 2010Word of the Day
COMITY\ KAH-muh-tee\DEFINITION
noun

: friendly civility : courtesy
EXAMPLES In the interests of neighborhood comity, everyone agreed to a block-wide tag sale.

"Two years after an election that seemed to portend a new era of comity, American politics has resumed what now appears to be its permanent condition of polarization, quite possibly worsened by widening rifts within the two major parties." -- From an essay by Sam Tanenhaus in The New York Times, October 24, 2010
DID YOU KNOW? "Our country soweth also in the field of our breasts many precious seeds, as … honest behavior, affability, comity," wrote English clergyman Thomas Becon in 1543. Becon's use is the earliest documented appearance of "comity" -- a word derived from Latin "comitas," meaning "courteousness" (and probably related to the Sanskrit word for "he smiles"). "Comity" is largely used in political and judicial contexts. Since 1862 "comity of nations" has referred to countries bound by a courteous relationship based on mutual recognition of executive, legislative, and judicial acts. And, in legal contexts, "comity" refers to the recognition by courts of one jurisdiction of the laws and judicial decisions of another.


I think that everyone here tries their level best to practice COMITY toward each other in everything that we say and do.

** As a personal note, This place gives me hope in the knowledge that not EVERYONE in the world is power hungry, Greedy uncaring people. I mean How many times have you knowwn (not counting here) that someone, a total stranger has given another a present of something worth $20.00, $85.00 OR MORE. Or gone out of their way to make something for (FREE OF CHARGE) someone they don't know and may possibly may never meet.

THANK YOU YARD, for allowing me to become one of your number.