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Meanings of gentility in English

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educació
Spanish
elegancia

Elegance by virtue of fineness of manner and expression.

        educació
        Usage of gentility in English
        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
        6
        One of his name had not lacked, indeed, for instructions in gentility.
        A Modern Chronicle — Volume 08
        7
        The house is new, and has a trim, light-colored interior of half-gentility.
        Passages from the English Notebooks, Volume 2.
        8
        Despite your Christianity, and despite your gentility -you are a liar.
        Nina Balatka
        9
        Evening parties wore got up for their benefit, as Westbourne gentility dictated.
        Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 418 / Volume 17, New Series, J...
        10
        I had imagined him, I confess, a degree or two nearer gentility.
        Emma
        11
        Our landlady's daughter is a young lady of some pretensions to gentility.
        The Professor at the Breakfast-Table
        12
        Everybody who pretended to gentility in the place belonged to it.
        Wives and Daughters
        13
        She was reducing the establishment to the narrowest compass compatible with decent gentility.
        Two on a Tower
        14
        But her gentility withered at the touch of the sweet air.
        Howards End
        15
        At this, Dorothea's expression softened, through bafflement to a new gentility.
        Complete Books of Blood
        16
        She was shabbily dressed, with a trace of gentility in clothes and manner.
        Land of the Burnt Thigh
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