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Definition of Gentler
1. gentle [adj] - See also: gentle
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gentler
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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