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gentilesse

noun · 1 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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noun

Meaning 1

Courtesy, refinement; gentleness.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: literary

Examples

  • 1913, Francis Thompson, "Love's Almsman Plaineth His Fare" in The Complete Poems of Francis Thompson, New York: Modern Library, no date, p. 252, https://archive.org/details/completepoemsoff00thomiala Who bound thee to a body nothing worth, / And shamed thee much with an unlovely soul, / That the most strainedst charity of earth / Distasteth soon to render back the whole / Of thine inflamèd sweets and gentilesse?

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History

Etymology

From Middle English gentilesse, from Old French gentilesce.