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Definition of gentility in English: gentilitynoundʒɛnˈtɪlɪtidʒɛnˈtɪlədi mass nounSocial superiority as demonstrated by polite and respectable manners, behaviour, or appearances. 上流社会地位；上流社会的举止（或风度）；（行为，外表的）优雅出众 her grandmother's pretensions to gentility 她祖母夸耀的高贵出身。 Example sentencesExamples - Doing so, she challenges conceptions of gender, race, gentility, and commodity culture that were already in flux after the war.
- Chintz armchairs and couch, and a walnut sideboard with light-catching decanters and a crystal fruit bowl on lace, completed to the air of polite gentility.
- Pink roses symbolize grace and gentility in modern rose vocabulary.
- While literacy is associated with inherent gentility in a colonial space where social standards are in flux, literacy does not have the same currency for the governess back home in Britain.
- Those of high social standing and sufficient leisure could cultivate their person ‘as a work of art’ in which expression and gesture became indexes of gentility and civilite.
- How reassuring it is, to know that our governing party staffs its conferences with persons of such gentility, good sense, and tact.
- Meanwhile, music for the home centred on the piano, which was now the quintessential domestic instrument, badge of female gentility and social respectability.
- He liked to prick the bubble of their gentility by doing things like that.
- Individuals can learn to act politely, but they cannot become genteel unless their gentility is publicly acknowledged by persons who are themselves genteel.
- These dealers were usually people of independent means, and a certain reticent gentility hovered over their dealings.
- Once he became rich, he bought a huge house and created this appearance of gentility and breeding in his daughters.
- With independence approaching, the small community was gripped by a wave of hedonistic debauchery that undermined its pretence at prim parasol-and-petticoat gentility.
- Increasingly a biological definition of gentility was being challenged and surpassed by a cultural one, which allowed an expanding middling order access, through an appropriate use of their wealth, to social kudos.
- Since drinking coffee socially was something that gentility and the aristocracy did, the middle classes could prove their own respectability and gentility by doing the same.
- Eschewing the ostentatious gentility of readers, who enjoy parading their superficial knowledge, she pursues her intellectual work without need of an audience.
- The diversity of his choices reflects the desire of his patrons to surround themselves with the trappings of culture and gentility that at the time were equated with European antiques.
- The square looks in on itself, exuding an air of imperturbable gentility.
- Since any ill-bred person threatened to undermine everyone else's claims to gentility, such rudeness had to be banned from polite social intercourse.
- Clerks were continually chided for carrying themselves with a pretence of gentility in their dress, but clerks had little choice in the matter.
- With suit pressed and vacuous smile, he remains the image of gentility: he is privileged, sheltered and supported from the realities of engaging with the world.
Synonyms social superiority, respectability, refinement, pre-eminence, pride of place, distinction, ascendancy British informal poshness humorous couth respectability, refinement, polish, decorousness, correctness, seemliness, politeness, good manners, culture, breeding, cultivation, sophistication, courtesy, ladylikeness, gentlemanliness, civility, elegance, style, stylishness, urbanity, civilization, courtliness, dignity, grace, graciousness, punctiliousness affectedness, affectation, ostentation, ostentatiousness dated mannerliness
OriginMiddle English (in the sense 'honourable birth'): from Old French gentilite, from gentil (see gentle1). Rhymesability, agility, civility, debility, docility, edibility, facility, fertility, flexility, fragility, futility, hostility, humility, imbecility, infantility, juvenility, liability, mobility, nihility, nobility, nubility, puerility, senility, servility, stability, sterility, tactility, tranquillity (US tranquility), usability, utility, versatility, viability, virility, volatility Definition of gentility in US English: gentilitynounjenˈtilədēdʒɛnˈtɪlədi Social superiority as demonstrated by genteel manners, behavior, or appearances. 上流社会地位；上流社会的举止（或风度）；（行为，外表的）优雅出众 her grandmother's pretensions to gentility 她祖母夸耀的高贵出身。 Example sentencesExamples - Increasingly a biological definition of gentility was being challenged and surpassed by a cultural one, which allowed an expanding middling order access, through an appropriate use of their wealth, to social kudos.
- Eschewing the ostentatious gentility of readers, who enjoy parading their superficial knowledge, she pursues her intellectual work without need of an audience.
- With suit pressed and vacuous smile, he remains the image of gentility: he is privileged, sheltered and supported from the realities of engaging with the world.
- Meanwhile, music for the home centred on the piano, which was now the quintessential domestic instrument, badge of female gentility and social respectability.
- Since any ill-bred person threatened to undermine everyone else's claims to gentility, such rudeness had to be banned from polite social intercourse.
- Doing so, she challenges conceptions of gender, race, gentility, and commodity culture that were already in flux after the war.
- The square looks in on itself, exuding an air of imperturbable gentility.
- These dealers were usually people of independent means, and a certain reticent gentility hovered over their dealings.
- Individuals can learn to act politely, but they cannot become genteel unless their gentility is publicly acknowledged by persons who are themselves genteel.
- With independence approaching, the small community was gripped by a wave of hedonistic debauchery that undermined its pretence at prim parasol-and-petticoat gentility.
- Pink roses symbolize grace and gentility in modern rose vocabulary.
- Once he became rich, he bought a huge house and created this appearance of gentility and breeding in his daughters.
- Since drinking coffee socially was something that gentility and the aristocracy did, the middle classes could prove their own respectability and gentility by doing the same.
- How reassuring it is, to know that our governing party staffs its conferences with persons of such gentility, good sense, and tact.
- While literacy is associated with inherent gentility in a colonial space where social standards are in flux, literacy does not have the same currency for the governess back home in Britain.
- Clerks were continually chided for carrying themselves with a pretence of gentility in their dress, but clerks had little choice in the matter.
- The diversity of his choices reflects the desire of his patrons to surround themselves with the trappings of culture and gentility that at the time were equated with European antiques.
- He liked to prick the bubble of their gentility by doing things like that.
- Chintz armchairs and couch, and a walnut sideboard with light-catching decanters and a crystal fruit bowl on lace, completed to the air of polite gentility.
- Those of high social standing and sufficient leisure could cultivate their person ‘as a work of art’ in which expression and gesture became indexes of gentility and civilite.
Synonyms social superiority, respectability, refinement, pre-eminence, pride of place, distinction, ascendancy respectability, refinement, polish, decorousness, correctness, seemliness, politeness, good manners, culture, breeding, cultivation, sophistication, courtesy, ladylikeness, gentlemanliness, civility, elegance, style, stylishness, urbanity, civilization, courtliness, dignity, grace, graciousness, punctiliousness
OriginMiddle English (in the sense ‘honorable birth’): from Old French gentilite, from gentil (see gentle). |