Meaning of gentleman-like | Babel Free

Definitions

Adjective. [C2]

Examples

“Deuinitie (the Heauen of all Artes) for a while drew his thoughts vnto it, but shortly after the world the flesh and the diuell with-drewe him from that, and needes he would be of a more Gentleman-like lustie cut⟳; whereupon hee fell to morrall Epistling and Poetrie.”

“[…] and ſo wee wept: and there was the firſt Gentleman-like teares that euer we ſhed.”

“I proteſt, it is to me the moſt difficult of things to write⟳ to one of your female geniuſes—there is a certain degree of cleverality (if I may ſo call⟳ it), an eaſy kind of derangement of periods, a gentleman-like—faſhionable—careleſs—ſee-ſaw of dialogue—which I know⟳ no more of than you do of cruelty.”

““You are mistaken, Mr. Darcy, if you suppose⟳ that the mode of your declaration affected me in any other way, than as it spared me the concern⟳ which I might have⟳ felt in refusing you, had you behaved in a more gentleman-like manner.””

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