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Definition of Gentilities
1. gentility [n] - See also: gentility
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gentilities
Literary usage of Gentilities
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Ainsworth's Magazine: A Miscellany of Romance, General Literature, & Art by William Harrison Ainsworth, George Cruikshank, Hablot Knight Browne (1844)
"... A STORY OF THE gentilities. BY LAMAN BLANCHARD. THERE is often a deep moral
meaning, a particular social signification, in a knock at the door. ..."
2. The Past in the Present: What is Civilization? by Sir Arthur Mitchell (1881)
"... which are not healthy in their nature; and it is not difficult to believe that
there may be a want of good health in all mere West End gentilities. ..."
3. The Scottish Gallovidian Encyclopedia by John Mactaggart (1876)
"One of his terms, warm from the heat of nature, is worth a million of artful
gentilities ; it carries a strong sough always. ..."
4. History of English Thought in the Eighteenth Century by William Randolph Hearst (1851)
"When he saw, in contradiction to his prophecies, that the reform was to move in
a wider sphere, and that he and his gentilities were not necessary to it, ..."
5. Kate Beaumont by John William De Forest (1872)
"There are other proprieties and gentilities. Now on this extraordinary occasion
it seems to me that these other proprieties and ..."
6. Arbor Day Manual: An Aid in Preparing Programs for Arbor Day Exercises edited by Charles Rufus Skinner (1890)
"With some sa 1er foregone gentilities, ved relics of ner wealth of leaves; 4.
From the same : The red-oak softer-grained, yields all for lost, And, ..."
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