gentlehood
(ˈdʒɛnt(ə)lhʊd)
[See -hood.]
Position or character attaching to gentle birth.
| 1860 Trollope Framley P. III. xiii. 250 He..knew well what changes gentlehood would have demanded from him. 1881 Mrs. E. Lynn Linton My Love III. 224 That was her sole answer to his assertion of gentlehood and honour. 1883 ― Girl of Period I. 289 Time was when cruelty and falsehood were essentially sins which vitiated all claims to gentlehood. 1888 Besant Inner House x. 142 When we allowed gentlehood to be destroyed, gentle manners, honour, dignity, and such old virtues went too. |