Crossword-Solution: GENTLEMANLINESS
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Gentlemanliness | n. | The state of being gentlemanly; gentlemanly conduct or manners. |
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Hint 1 meaning
Godlike; heavenly; excellent in the highest degree;
supremely admirable; apparently above what is human. In this
application, the word admits of comparison; as, the divinest mind. Sir
J. Davies.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
"Delicious!"
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Sentences with GENTLEMANLINESS (5)
She spoke to herself of him as women speak of young men they like--alluded to his bravery (which she had never in the least seen tested), to his honesty and gentlemanliness, and was not silent upon the subject of his good looks.
And he might have picked up his gentlemanliness by going to the galleries of theatres, and watching stage drawing-room manners.
Watson, but Watson, instead of seeing that it was a rebuke, accepted the title as a tribute to his gentlemanliness.
Strength, and the consciousness of strength, in a right-hearted man, imparts a nobleness to his character; but he will be most careful how he uses it; for “It is excellent To have a giant’s strength; but it is tyrannous To use it like a giant.” Gentleness is indeed the best test of gentlemanliness.
From her life’s experience gathered in various “business houses” the good woman had taken into her retirement an ideal of gentlemanliness as exhibited by the patrons of private-saloon bars.
Quotes with GENTLEMANLINESS (2)
The liar was the hottest to defend his veracity, the coward his courage, the ill-bred his gentlemanliness, and the cad his honor
Orwell clung with a kind of wry, grim pride to the old ways of the last class that had ruled the old order. He must sometimes have wondered how it came about that he should be praising sportsmanship and gentlemanliness and dutifulness and physical courage. He seems to have thought, and very likely he was right, that they might come in handy as revolutionary virtues.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1992).