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Meanings of gentility in inglés

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elegancia

Elegance by virtue of fineness of manner and expression.

elegancia
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Examples for "breeding"
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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
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
Usage of gentility in inglés
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
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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...
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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