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gentlemanlike, a. and adv.|ˈdʒɛnt(ə)lmənlaɪk|
[f. gentleman + like.]
A. adj.
1. Of character, actions, pursuits, etc.: Appropriate or natural to a gentleman.
1557North tr. Gueuara's Diall Pr. (1619) 626/2 Wearing that that is comely and Gentlemanlike. 1650Bulwer Anthropomet. 22 Hard-head and Block-head..would be taken for terms of honour and Gentleman-like qualifications. 1709Steele Tatler No. 37 ⁋2 The most accomplish'd Man in this Kingdom for all Gentleman-like Activities and Accomplishments. 1792Munchausen's Trav. iii. 9, I was..at liberty to sport away my time and money in the most gentlemanlike manner. 1838–9Hallam Hist. Lit. III. vii. iii. §30. 370 We have nowhere in our early writers..an absence of quaintness, pedantry, and vulgarity, so truly gentlemanlike. 1882M. E. Braddon Mt. Royal II. ix. 170 It would have been more gentlemanlike to hold my tongue.
absol.1864Lowell Fireside Trav. 71 The gentleman⁓like pervaded even his prayers.
2. Of persons: Resembling a gentleman in appearance or conduct.
1581G. Pettie Guazzo's Civ. Conv. ii. (1586) 87 For the more good parts be in a man, the more Gentlemanlike he is saide to bee. 1669Pepys Diary 14 May, It was a mockery by one Cornet Bolton, a very gentleman-like man. 1759Compl. Lett.-writer (ed. 6) 226 He was elegantly dresst and Gentleman-like. 1808Scott Fam. Lett. 4 Mar. (1894) I. 99 He is a well-educated and gentleman-like man. 1879Froude Cæsar xxviii. 483 He [Cæsar] was quiet and gentlemanlike, with the natural courtesy of high breeding.
3. Comb., as gentlemanlike-looking adj.
1823T. Moore Mem. (1853) IV. 103 Knocklofty, a very gentlemanlike-looking place.
†B. adv. After the fashion of a gentleman.
1542Udall Erasm. Apoph. 44 a, When certain persones did by y⊇ waye of reproche cast in his teeth that he liued gentlemanlike and passyng deintyly. 1602Rowlands Greenes Ghost 13 How manie haue we about London, yt to the disgrace of Gentlemen liue gentlemanlike of themselues hauing neither mony nor land. 1606Day Ile of Guls Prol., You should not deale gentleman-like with us els.
Hence ˈgentlemanlikeness (nonce-wd.).
1849Thackeray in Scribner's Mag. I. 674/2 Go I must, to be killed by his melancholy gentlemanlikeness. |