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genteelly, adv.|dʒɛnˈtiːllɪ|
[f. genteel a. + -ly2.]
In a genteel manner. (Cf. senses of the adj.)
1637Heywood Royal King iii. E iij b, Such onely gentile are that can maintaine gentily. 1665Glanvill Scepsis Sci. Addr. 14 Those that would be gentilely learned..need not purchase it, at the dear rate of being Atheists. 1668Pepys Diary (1877) V. 149 After dinner, my Lord Brereton very gentilely went to the organ. 1708Prior Turtle & Sparrow 218 Well born she was, genteelly bred. c1710C. Fiennes Diary (1888) 76 He has a very good house and genteely fitted good Hall and parlour. 1732Law Serious C. ix. (ed. 2) 121 A saint genteely dress'd is as great nonsense as an Apostle in an embroider'd suit. 1739Lady M. W. Montagu Let. to Wortley Montagu 14 Oct., I can live here very genteelly on my allowance. 1753Hogarth Anal. Beauty x. 105 The whole horn acquires a beauty by its being thus genteelly bent two different ways. 1779Forrest Voy. N. Guinea 217 The Rajah..entertained us very genteelly at supper. 1810Sporting Mag. XXXVI. 195 The day was genteelly closed by a bull-baiting. 1817Byron Beppo xxiii, Time..treated her genteelly. 1841Thackeray Second Funeral Napoleon iii, Bred up genteelly at Eton. 1876M. E. Braddon J. Haggard's Dau. II. 8 If Cynthia had been less handy, things could not have gone off so genteelly. |