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Meanings of genteelness in anglès

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Elegance by virtue of fineness of manner and expression.

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Examples for "breeding"
1
It could, however, be used in breeding prize livestock or rare animals.
Wired
2
In a statement, the company said the breeding programme will end immediately.
The Irish Times
3
The colony is breeding fast, often causing a problem for local residents.
The South African
4
Government policy at present allows three breeding females within the designated area.
The Guardian
5
Henk has been breeding cows for 30 years and milks year round.
Radio NZ
1
The house in Evelina Road was no mere haunt of quiet gentility.
A Book of Scoundrels
2
He walked with a step that was almost affected in its gentility.
Under the Prophet in Utah; the National Menace of a Political Pr...
3
The gentility of farming is emphasized by a hundred precepts from Hesiod.
A Day in Old Athens; a Picture of Athenian Life
4
The whole record has an old-fashioned gentility that makes its frankness tragic.
Italian Hours
5
Where once gentility abode was now but a rancid and rude incontinence.
Roads of Destiny
Usage of genteelness in anglès
1
I only ask you, out of your great virtue and genteelness, to lend me the armor I have asked you for.
The White Knight: Tirant Lo Blanc
2
You will easily guess that Lady Temple(429) was the poetess, and that we were delighted with the genteelness of the thought and execution.
The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 3
3
It seems equally superfluous to prove, that the COMPANIONABLE virtues of good manners and wit, decency and genteelness, are more desirable than the contrary qualities.
An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals
Translations for genteelness
Genteelness through the time