comity of nations
Britishnoun
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Each had made the people of this doubly landlocked country — one of only two, the other being Liechtenstein — of 34 million part of a greater world, a cosmopolis, a comity of nations.
From New York Times ● May 11, 2020
Germany had been brought back into the comity of nations and he did not care who got the credit.
From Time Magazine Archive
But Commodore Matthew Calbraith Perry in 1853 successfully "urged Japan to join the modern comity of nations."
From Time Magazine Archive
Seemingly, it cannot be long before a New Foreign Policy will open the way to the restablishment of Russia in the comity of nations, with resultant prosperity lor the world.
From Time Magazine Archive
Gwynne was well read in the English Common Law, and in Comparative Jurisprudence, particularly in the history of treaties and the comity of nations.
From Ancestors A Novel by Atherton, Gertrude Franklin Horn
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