Gentlehood
noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 The state of being of good or gentle birth; good breeding. uncountable
"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."
Example
More 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."
Etymology
From gentle + -hood.
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