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Civic

adjective

Of or relating or belonging to a city. "Civic problems"

Of or relating to or befitting citizens as individuals. Synonym: civil. "Civil liberty" , "Civic duties" , "Civic pride"

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"Civic" Quotes from Famous Books

... is very hard, that we must once more take up that awful struggle to reconcile two truths and to keep civic freedom sacred in spite of the organization of religion, and not to deny what is certainly true. It is hard to accept mysteries, and to be humble. We are tost as the great schoolmen were tost, and we dare not neglect the duty of ...

— The Path to Rome • Hilaire Belloc

... the latter course that he had intended to create the new nobility. Ostensibly the measure was to be the last blow of the ax at the root of feudalism. The new dignities carried no privilege with them; they were, it was explained, a sort of civic crown to which any one might aspire, and their creation was therefore in no way derogatory to the principle of equality. The holders might become too independent and self-reliant, they might even display ...

— The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte - Vol. III. (of IV.) • William Milligan Sloane

... a prominent and prosperous merchant of the highest type, a man of great civic activities, and deeply interested in everything which tended to beautify the community. In his will by a legacy of $50,000 he provided for the endowment of a school for the free education of white boys ...

— A Portrait of Old George Town • Grace Dunlop Ecker

... to lay down large mains without any prospect of remuneration. The warehouse keepers decline to be at the expense of laying the pipes, and there the matter seems to rest. In most other places of importance, the water is under the management of the civic authorities, and they, of course, endeavour to obtain a good supply of water at fires in warehouse as well ...

— Fire Prevention and Fire Extinction • James Braidwood

... of being Daddy now set in. To me, as a father, the City by the Lake assumed a new and terrifying aspect. Its dirt, its chill winds, its smoke appeared a pitiless league of forces assaulting the tender form of my daughter. My interest in civic reforms augmented. The problems of street cleaning and sanitary milk delivery approached me from an entirely different angle. My sense of social justice ...

— A Daughter of the Middle Border • Hamlin Garland

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