GENTEELNESS
GENTEE'LNESS, adjective Gracefulness of manners or person; elegance; politeness. We speak of the genteelness of a person or of his deportment.1. Qualities befitting a person of ...
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GENTIAN
GEN'TIAN, noun [Latin gentiana.] A genus of plants, of many species. The common gentian is a native of the mountainous parts of Germany. The root, the only part used, has a yell...
GENTIL
GEN'TIL, noun A species of falcon or hawk.
GENTILE
GEN'TILE, noun [Latin gentilis; from Latin gens, nation, race; applied to pagans.]In the scriptures, a pagan; a worshipper of false gods; any person not a Jew or a christian; a ...
GENTILESSE
GENTILESSE, noun Complaisance. [Not in use.]
GENTILISH
GEN'TILISH, adjective Heathenish; pagan.
GENTILISM
GEN'TILISM, noun Heathenism; paganism; the worship of false gods.
GENTILITIOUS
GENTILI'TIOUS, adjective [Latin gentilitius, from gens.]1. Peculiar to a people or nation; national.2. Hereditary; entailed on a family.
GENTILITY
GENTIL'ITY, noun1. Politeness of manners; easy, graceful behavior; the manners of well bred people; genteelness.2. Good extraction; dignity of birth.3. Gracefulness of mien.4. G...
GENTILIZE
GEN'TILIZE, verb intransitive To live like a heathen.
GENTLE
GEN'TLE, adjective [See Genteel.] Well born; of a good family or respectable birth, though not noble; as the studies of noble and gentle youth; gentle blood.1. Mild; meek; soft;...
GENTLEFOLK
GEN'TLEFOLK, noun [gentle and folk.] Persons of good breeding and family. It is now used only in the plural, gentlefolks, and this use is vulgar.
GENTLEMAN
GEN'TLEMAN, adjective [gentle, that is, genteel, and man. See Genteel.]1. In its most extensive sense, in Great Britain, every man above the rank of yeomen, comprehending noblem...
GENTLEMANLIKE
GEN'TLEMANLIKEGEN'TLEMANLINESS, noun Behavior of a well bred man.
GENTLEMANLINESS
GEN'TLEMANLINESS, n. Behavior of a well bred man.
GENTLEMANLY
GEN'TLEMANLY, adjective Pertaining to or becoming a gentleman, or a man of good family and breeding; polite; complaisant; as gentlemanly manners.1. Like a man of birth and good ...
GENTLENESS
GEN'TLENESS, noun [See Gentle.] Dignity of birth. [Little used.]1. Genteel behavior.2. Softness of manners; mildness of temper; sweetness of disposition; meekness.The fruit of t...
GENTLESHIP
GEN'TLESHIP, noun The deportment of a gentleman.
GENTLEWOMAN
GEN'TLEWOMAN, noun [gentle and woman.] A woman of good family or of good breeding; a woman above the vulgar.1. A woman who waits about the person of one of high rank.2. A term o...
GENTLY
GEN'TLY, adverb Softly; meekly; mildly; with tenderness.My mistress gently chides the fault I made.1. Without violence, roughness or asperity.
GENTOO
GENTOO', noun A native of India or Hindoostan; one who follows the religion of the Bramins.
GENTRY
GEN'TRY, noun Birth; condition; rank by birth.1. People of education and good breeding. In Great Britain, the classes of people between the nobility and the vulgar.2. A term of ...
GENUFLECTION
GENUFLEC'TION, noun [Latin genu, the knee, and flectio, a bending.]The act of bending the knee, particularly in worship.
GENUINE
GEN'UINE, adjective [Latin genuinus, from enus, or its root. See Gender.]Native; belonging to the original stock; hence, real; natural; true; pure; not spurious, false or adulte...
GENUINELY
GEN'UINELY, adverb Without adulteration or foreign admixture; naturally.
GENUINENESS
GEN'UINENESS, noun The state of being native, or of the true original; hence, freedom from adulteration or foreign admixture; freedom from any thing false or counterfeit; purity...
GENUS
GE'NUS, nounplural genuses or genera. [Latin genus See Gender.]1. In logic, that which has several species under it; a class of a greater extent than species; a universal which ...