Word Meanings - GENTILESSE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Gentleness; courtesy; kindness; nobility. Chaucer.
Related words: (words related to GENTILESSE)
- NOBILITY
1. The quality or state of being noble; superiority of mind or of character; commanding excellence; eminence. Though she hated Amphialus, yet the nobility of her courage prevailed over it. Sir P. Sidney. They thought it great their sovereign to - KINDNESS
1. The state or quality of being kind, in any of its various senses; manifestation of kind feeling or disposition beneficence. I do fear thy nature; It is too full o' the milk of human kindness To catch the nearest way. Shak. Unremembered acts - GENTLENESS
The quality or state of being gentle, well-born, mild, benevolent, docile, etc.; gentility; softness of manners, disposition, etc.; mildness. - COURTESY
corteisie, courtesie, OF. curteisie, cortoisie, OF. curteisie, 1. Politeness; civility; urbanity; courtliness. And trust thy honest-offered courtesy, With oft is sooner found in lowly sheds, With smoky rafters, than in tapestry walls And courts - LOVING-KINDNESS
Tender regard; mercy; favor. Ps. lxxxix. 33. - DISCOURTESY
Rudeness of behavior or language; ill manners; manifestation of disrespect; incivility. Be calm in arguing; for fierceness makes Error a fault, and truth discourtesy. Herbert. - IGNOBILITY
Ignobleness. Bale. - DISKINDNESS
Unkindness; disservice. A. Tucker.