gentleship
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
gentleship (uncountable)
- (obsolete) The deportment or conduct of a gentleman.
- a. 1569 (date written), Roger Ascham, edited by Margaret Ascham, The Scholemaster: Or Plaine and Perfite Way of Teaching Children, to Vnderstand, Write, and Speake, the Latin Tong, […], London: […] John Daye, […], published 1570, →OCLC:
- men will […] have more gentleship in their hat than in their head
References[edit]
- “gentleship”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.