Gentlemanliness

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The state of being a gentleman. uncountable
  2. 2
    Gentlemanly behaviour, characteristics of or pertaining to being a gentleman. wordnet
  3. 3
    gentlemanly behaviour. uncountable

    "But in addition to this, in both there seemed to me to be an underlying basis of gentlemanliness, not especially observable in the locomotive men, or many of them, of years ago."

Synonyms

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breedingcultivationcultureelegancegentilitygentlemanhood

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"But in addition to this, in both there seemed to me to be an underlying basis of gentlemanliness, not especially observable in the locomotive men, or many of them, of years ago."

Etymology

From gentlemanly + -ness.

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