Meaning of gentlemans | Babel Free

Definitions

genitive of gentleman

form-of, genitive, obsolete

Equivalents

Examples

“A tattered cadie, or errand porter, whom David Deans had jostled in his attempt to extricate himself from the vicinity of the scorners, exclaimed in a strong north-country tone, "Ta de'il ding out her Cameronian een—what gi'es her titles to dunch gentlemans about?"”

““If he be one gentleman, he may tine wid me: and I vill show to de gentlemans of England, vat de Italian gentlemans are.””

“You are a gentleman, and gentlemans are much too fine for trate.”

“No person shall keepe any schoole... except it be in some publike or free Grammer Schoole, or in some such noblemans... or gentlemans... house as are not recusants.”

“VVe may commend / A Gentlemans modeſty, manners, and fine language, / […] / Yet, though he obſerue, and vvaſte his ſtate vpon vs, / If he be ſtanch and bid not for the ſtocke / That vve vvere borne to traffick vvith; the truth is / VVe care not for his company.”

“IN the fourth place we are to conſider the Gentlemans advantage, in reſpect of his Authority over thoſe that relate to, or depend on him: […]”

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