Meaning of gentility in English
(Definition of gentility from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
Examples of gentility
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These, in turn, are usefully understood as expressing the semantic resonances of ' politeness ', namely, a concern with form, sociability, improvement, worldliness, and gentility.
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Her family was one of those whose claim to gentility was supported by limited real property combined with the noninheritable profits of office.%!
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Linked to the growth of urban gentility was the transformation of these four towns into centres of consumption.
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At times, the dualism is effective, as with the discussion of gentility and its links with the consumption of calicoes and silks.
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Her indifference to the question of gentility is surprising, particularly when considering many of the vitriolic contemporary opinions about women's work.
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It is true that the complex of values that underlay the new discourse of gentility centered on male behavior, as in the original chivalric ideal.
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The language and tone of instructional books about wax flower modelling highlight the gentility and respectability of modelling and looking at wax flowers.
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And the role of gentility was therefore going to be central to the fortunes of experimental philosophy.
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In response, a number of promoters refigured their prospects in ways that actually reinforced the terms of a familiar gentility.
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Ideal for the majority of academics who equate using the passive style with gentility.
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There was a literary as well as a social context to prompt reiterated definitions of gentlemanliness, namely, the earlier literary discourse of gentility.
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Truthful testimony was thus seen as a ready concomitant to gentility.
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Undoubtedly, as this notion of metropolitan gentility evolved so did other ' provincial ' notions of ' middling ' decency and respectability.
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But honesty was a characteristic that was routinely attributed to them, and that was reckoned part and parcel of gentility itself.
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However, this was hardly a positive vindication of his honour, integrity, or gentility.
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gentillesse, distinction…
kibarlık, zerafet…
deftigheid…
uhlazenost…
gode manerer…
kesopanan…
ความสุภาพมากเกินไป…
hành vi tao nhã…
dobre maniery…
[strunt]förnämitet…
kehalusan budi pekerti…
die Vornehmtuerei…
tertefinhet…
світськість…
