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Significados de gentility en inglés

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Elegance by virtue of fineness of manner and expression.

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Uso de gentility en inglés
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The house in Evelina Road was no mere haunt of quiet gentility.
A Book of Scoundrels
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He walked with a step that was almost affected in its gentility.
Under the Prophet in Utah; the National Menace of a Political Pr...
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The gentility of farming is emphasized by a hundred precepts from Hesiod.
A Day in Old Athens; a Picture of Athenian Life
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The whole record has an old-fashioned gentility that makes its frankness tragic.
Italian Hours
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Where once gentility abode was now but a rancid and rude incontinence.
Roads of Destiny
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One of his name had not lacked, indeed, for instructions in gentility.
A Modern Chronicle — Volume 08
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The house is new, and has a trim, light-colored interior of half-gentility.
Passages from the English Notebooks, Volume 2.
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Despite your Christianity, and despite your gentility -you are a liar.
Nina Balatka
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Evening parties wore got up for their benefit, as Westbourne gentility dictated.
Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 418 / Volume 17, New Series, J...
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I had imagined him, I confess, a degree or two nearer gentility.
Emma
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Our landlady's daughter is a young lady of some pretensions to gentility.
The Professor at the Breakfast-Table
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Everybody who pretended to gentility in the place belonged to it.
Wives and Daughters
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She was reducing the establishment to the narrowest compass compatible with decent gentility.
Two on a Tower
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But her gentility withered at the touch of the sweet air.
Howards End
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At this, Dorothea's expression softened, through bafflement to a new gentility.
Complete Books of Blood
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She was shabbily dressed, with a trace of gentility in clothes and manner.
Land of the Burnt Thigh
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