gentlemanliness

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English

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Etymology

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From gentlemanly +‎ -ness.

Noun

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gentlemanliness (uncountable)

  1. The state of being a gentleman.
  2. gentlemanly behaviour.
    • 1949 March and April, F. G. Roe, “I Saw Three Englands–2”, in Railway Magazine, page 84:
      But in addition to this, in both there seemed to me to be an underlying basis of gentlemanliness, not especially observable in the locomotive men, or many of them, of years ago.

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