Gallantise
noun, verb ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 Gallantry. obsolete, uncountable
"Gray-headed senate , and youth ' s gallantise, Graced not so much as only this device."
- 1 Alternative form of gallantize. alt-of, alternative
"It happened not so in the Retort made by this Page to a certain PrivyCounsellor, who, notwithstanding his advanced Age and dignified Rank, gallantised all the young Girls he came near, yet not in that polite agreeable Manner, wherein a pleasant Turn of Irony renders a little Foolery sufferable, nay not altogether misbecoming in Persons of Gravity;"
Example
More examples"It happened not so in the Retort made by this Page to a certain PrivyCounsellor, who, notwithstanding his advanced Age and dignified Rank, gallantised all the young Girls he came near, yet not in that polite agreeable Manner, wherein a pleasant Turn of Irony renders a little Foolery sufferable, nay not altogether misbecoming in Persons of Gravity;"
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