Gentlemanliness
(Gen"tle*man*li*ness) n. The state of being gentlemanly; gentlemanly conduct or manners.
Gentlemanship
(Gen"tle*man*ship), n. The carriage or quality of a gentleman.
Gentleness
(Gen"tle*ness), n. The quality or state of being gentle, well-born, mild, benevolent, docile,
etc.; gentility; softness of manners, disposition, etc.; mildness.
Gentleship
(Gen"tle*ship), n. The deportment or conduct of a gentleman. [Obs.] Ascham.
Gentlesse
(Gent"lesse) n. Gentilesse; gentleness. [Obs.]
Gentlewoman
(Gen"tle*wom`an) n.; pl. Gentlewomen
1. A woman of good family or of good breeding; a woman above the vulgar. Bacon.
2. A woman who attends a lady of high rank. Shak.
Gently
(Gen"tly) adv. In a gentle manner.
My mistress gently chides the fault I made.
Dryden. Gentoo
(Gen*too") n.; pl. Gentoos [Pg. gentio gentile, heathen. See Gentile.] A native of Hindostan; a
Hindoo. [Archaic]
Gentry
(Gen"try) n. [OE. genterie, gentrie, noble birth, nobility, cf. gentrise, and OF. gentelise, genterise,
E. gentilesse, also OE. genteleri high-mindedness. See Gent, a., Gentle, a.]
1. Birth; condition; rank by birth. [Obs.] "Pride of gentrie." Chaucer.
She conquers him by high almighty Jove,
By knighthood, gentry, and sweet friendship's oath.
Shak. 2. People of education and good breeding; in England, in a restricted sense, those between the nobility
and the yeomanry. Macaulay.
3. Courtesy; civility; complaisance. [Obs.]
To show us so much gentry and good will.
Shak. Genty
(Gen"ty) a. [From F. gentil. Cf. Jaunty.] Neat; trim. [Scot.] Burns.
Genu
(||Ge"nu) n.; pl. Genua [L., the knee.] (Anat.) (a) The knee. (b) The kneelike bend, in the
anterior part of the callosum of the brain.
Genuflect
(Gen`u*flect") v. i. [imp. & p. p. Genuflected; p. pr. & vb. n. Genuflecting.] [See Genuflection.]
To bend the knee, as in worship.
Genuflection
(Gen`u*flec"tion) n. [F. génuflexion, fr. LL. genuflexio, fr. L. genu knee + flexio a bending,
fr. flectere, flexum, to bend. See Knee, Flexible.] The act of bending the knee, particularly in worship.
Bp. Stillingfleet.
Genuine
(Gen"u*ine) a. [L. genuinus, fr. genere, gignere, to beget, in pass., to be born: cf. F. génuine.
See Gender.] Belonging to, or proceeding from, the original stock; native; hence, not counterfeit, spurious,
false, or adulterated; authentic; real; natural; true; pure; as, a genuine text; a genuine production; genuine
materials. "True, genuine night." Dryden.
Syn. — Authentic; real; true; pure; unalloyed; unadulterated. See Authentic.
