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What is the noun for genteelness?

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gentry
  1. Birth; condition; rank by birth.
  2. Courtesy; civility; complaisance.
  3. People of education and good breeding.
  4. (Britain) In a restricted sense, those people between the nobility and the yeomanry.
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  6. Examples:
    1. “The gentry of the town held lavish parties in their grand mansions, showcasing their wealth and opulence.”
      “The gentry of the town were known for their lavish lifestyles and exclusive cultural events.”
      “The Glamorgan gentry patronized the boisterous village wakes, and even established new ones in communities which lacked them.”
gentility
  1. (uncountable) The state of being elegant, genteel, having good breeding, or being socially superior.
  2. The upper classes, the gentry.
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  4. Examples:
    1. “She shortly recovered herself, retaining that politeness and perfect gentility of manner that had never forsaken her through her long malady.”
      “No longer do these men feel any onus towards accommodating a lady, nor any deference or gentility towards the fairer sex.”
      “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.”
gentrice
  1. (archaic) The state or quality of being high-born; gentility.
  2. (archaic) High-born individuals collectively; gentry.
  3. Examples:
    1. “Did ever you hear that gentrice put money in folk's pockets?”
gentilesse
  1. (literary) Courtesy, refinement; gentleness.
  2. Examples:
    1. “For it seme at gentilesse be a maner preysynge at come of decert of auncestres.”
      “For if e name of gentilesse be referred to renoun and clernesse of linage.”
genteelness
  1. The quality of being genteel.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Nancy personifies the genteelness they like to see in people irrespective of gender.”
      “She projects a mixture of genteelness and gentility that makes her almost impossible to dislike, something that cannot be said of her spouse.”
      “We have so many Northern transplants here that Charlotte has forever lost the Southern genteelness it used to have.”
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