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Behavior that conforms to accepted standards of respectability and good breeding
“She shortly recovered herself, retaining that politeness and perfect gentility of manner that had never forsaken her through her long malady.”
The showing of politeness or grace in one's attitude and behavior towards others
“No longer do these men feel any onus towards accommodating a lady, nor any deference or gentility towards the fairer sex.”
Social superiority as demonstrated by polite and respectable manners, behavior, or appearances
“However, Madame could always have her pot au feu, kept two nice country lasses, one as cook and the other as fille-de-chambre, and had once a year the new fashions from Paris, to demonstrate her gentility.”
The aristocratic or upper classes of society
“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.”
The quality of being noble or honorable in character or virtue
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