Comity:
- a : friendly social atmosphere : social harmony • group activities promoting comity • bipartisan comity in the Senate
b : a loose widespread community based on common social institutions • the comity of civilization
c : comity of nations • trans-Atlantic comity
d : the informal and voluntary recognition by courts of one jurisdiction of the laws and judicial decisions of another- : avoidance of proselytizing members of another religious denomination [Merriam-Webster]
I tried to use the word comity while speaking to my Arts Editor yesterday, and we discovered that neither of us have a precise notion of its meaning.
