Definition of Gentler

1. Adjective. (comparative of gentle) ¹

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Definition of Gentler

1. gentle [adj] - See also: gentle

Lexicographical Neighbors of Gentler

gentlemanliness
gentlemanly
gentlemanship
gentleman’s agreement
gentlemen
gentlemen's agreement
gentlemen's club
gentlemen and scholars
gentlemen farmers
gentlemen of leisure
gentleness
gentlenesses
gentlepeople
gentleperson
gentlepersons
gentler (current term)
gentles
gentleship
gentlesse
gentlest
gentlewoman
gentlewomanliness
gentlewomanly
gentlewomen
gentling
gently
gentoo
gentoo penguin
gentoo penguins
gentoos

Literary usage of Gentler

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Study of Ethical Principles by James Seth (1905)
"(6) Subordination of the sterner to the gentler virtues.—A second manifestation of the law of moral progress is found in the gradual subordination of the ..."

2. Dante and His Italy by Lonsdale Ragg (1907)
"THE gentler SIDE OF LIFE SO far we have been looking at the sterner side of thirteenth century life: ... The period, like every other, has its gentler side. ..."

3. Mark Twain: A Biography : the Personal and Literary Life of Samuel Langhorne by Albert Bigelow Paine (1912)
"... THE gentler SIDE HIS associations At his school learning, and was now at were a number of less were (he not had all of that lawless breed. sampled ..."

4. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"Her usual theme was the New England character seen from its most attractive side, its gentler aspects given greater prominence and its harsher ones not ..."

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