Meaning of gentlehood | Babel Free

Definitions

The state of being of good or gentle birth; good breeding.

uncountable

Examples

“There was yet within him the means of repentance, could a locus penitentiæ^([sic]) have been supplied to him. He grieved bitterly over his own ill doings, and knew well what changes gentlehood would have demanded from him.”

“When we allowed gentlehood to be destroyed, gentle manners, honour, dignity, and such old virtues went too.”

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