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Word of the Day for Sunday, August 24, 2008comity \KOM-uh-tee\, noun: 1. A state of mutual harmony, friendship, and respect, especially between or among nations or people; civility. In Athens last week, E.U. leaders offered a picture of comity as they formally signed accession treaties with 10 new members. Despite the image of civil-military comity during World War II, there were many differences between Franklin Roosevelt and his military advisers. Short-term initiatives in 1919 became longer-term strategies for bringing the two pariahs, Germany and Russia, into the comity of nations. Everyone hopes that Saddam Hussein will honour his agreement with Kofi Annan and that Iraq will be received back into the comity of nations. Comity is from Latin comitas, from comis, "courteous." | |||||||||
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