gentilityn.

Brit.

/dʒɛnˈtɪlᵻti/, U.S.

/dʒɛnˈtɪlᵻdi/

Forms: Middle English gentylete, Middle English–1500s gentilite, 1500s gentilitee, 1500s gentilllitye, 1500s gentletie, 1500s gentyllitie, 1500s–1600s gentilitie, 1500s–1600s gentillity, 1500s– gentility; also Scottish pre-1700 gentilite, 1800s–1900s genteelity.

Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French gentilité; Latin gentīlitāt-, gentīlitās.

Etymology: < Anglo-Norman and Middle French, French gentilité, Middle French gentillité nobility of character (a1304 in Old French), condition or state of being a gentleman (mid 14th cent.), paganism, pagan people collectively (both late 15th cent.), and its etymon (ii) classical Latin gentīlitāt-, gentīlitās relationship between the members of a gens, members of a gens or family, nationality, relationship (of natural species), in post-classical Latin also paganism, pagan belief, heathendom, heathens (Vulgate; early 3rd cent. in Tertullian), barbarians, foreigners (4th cent.) < gentīlis (see gentile n. and adj., and compare gentle adj., n., and adv., genteel adj., n., and adv.) + -tās (see -ty suffix¹; compare -ity suffix).This word serves as noun of quality both to gentile n. and adj. and genteel adj., and also to gentle adj. in those senses which correspond to obsolete senses of genteel adj.

I. Senses relating to gentle adj., n., and adv., genteel adj., n., and adv.

a. Gentle birth; good lineage; the fact of being of good lineage. Also: the character of a person of gentle birth. Occasionally personified.

ΘΚΠ

society > society and the community > social class > nobility > aristocracy or upper class > gentry > [noun] > gentility

gentilesse1340

gentility1340

gentlenessc1425

genteelness1636

gentrice1722

ingenuousness1796

gentlehood1861

1340 Ayenbite (1866) 89 Hy ham yelpeþ of hare gentylete uor þet hy weneþ by of gentile woze.

1582 R. Stanyhurst tr. Virgil First Foure Bookes Æneis i. 5 What syrs? your boldnesse dooth your gentilitie warrant?

1642 Londons Love sig. A2 Gentility without wealth staggers like a sicke man.

a1677 I. Barrow Wks. (1686) III. 244 Courage and Courtesie..without which gentility in a conspicuous degree is no more than a vain shew.

1689 J. Collier Moral Ess. conc. Pride 59 An antient Gentility does not necessarily convey to us any advantage either of Body or Mind.

1791 J. Boswell Life Johnson anno 1765 I. 268 A new system of gentility might be established.

1876 M. Oliphant Makers of Florence iv. 105 He had no claim to gentility, and was only a ‘natural person’, an Italian clown.

2013 Huntington Libr. Q. 76 548 The peacocks on the Smith coat of arms indicate the Tudor origins of their gentility.

b. Chiefly with the. People of gentle birth collectively; the gentry.

ΘΚΠ

society > society and the community > social class > nobility > aristocracy or upper class > gentry > [noun]

gentle bloodc1300

genta1425

gentrya1525

gentility1583

gallantry1609

gentlery1609

second nobles1625

1583 Sir T. Smith's De Republica Anglorum ii. i. 34 The nobilitie, the rest of the gentilitie, and the yeomanrie.

1584 T. Cogan Hauen of Health iv. 25 Bread..made in forme of manchet, as is used of the gentilitie.

1622 T. Scott Belgicke Pismire 27 Their breede is from the lazie scumme of counterfeit Gentilitie.

1775 G. Stuart tr. J. L. de Lolme Constit. Eng. ii. 40 When the Gentility..pillaged and committed exactions on the peasantry, they called the poor sufferer, in derision, Jaques bonhomme.

1836 Sel. from Edinb. Rev. 6 135 The system of gavel-kind..was always a greater favourite with the farmers and peasantry than with the gentility.

2013 B. Bonner Paging the Dead 263 Dorothy..liked to pretend she was descended from gentility all the way back to some manor house in England.

c. The rank or status of a gentleman (gentleman n. 1a), sometimes associated with the right to wear or display heraldic arms. Now historical and rare.

ΘΚΠ

society > society and the community > social class > nobility > aristocracy or upper class > gentry > [noun] > gentleman > quality or rank of gentleman

gentry1447

gentlemanship1541

gentility1642

1642 W. Bird Mag. of Honour 150 If one be, a Gentleman by Office, and looseth his office, then he doth also lose his gentility.

1827 H. Hallam Constit. Hist. Eng. I. vi. 389 Floyd was adjudged to be degraded from his gentility.

1904 A. C. Fox-Davies Art Heraldry iii. 11/1 Arms are the sign of the technical rank of gentility.

1966 M. Prestwich Cranfield iv. 162 There was an alarming suggestion that the 7,000 families who had become armigerous since 1568 should lose their gentility ‘unless they will give twenty or thirty pound for confirmation of their gentry’.

†2. The graciousness or refinement traditionally associated with a person of high social position; polish; politeness; courtesy. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > behaviour > good behaviour > [noun] > good manners or polite behaviour > as a result of good breeding

gentilesse1340

gentryc1390

afaitementc1400

gentleness?c1400

gentility1590

breeding1600

good breeding1603

genteelism1849

society > society and the community > social class > nobility > aristocracy or upper class > gentry > [noun] > manners characteristic of gentlefolk

gentility1590

1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene iii. vi. sig. Gg8^v Such wilde woodes should far expell All ciuile vsage and gentility.

1598 W. Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost i. i. 127 A dangerous law against gentletie .

a. Social superiority as shown by behaviour, appearances, manners, etc.; genteel nature or quality. Frequently (esp. in later use) depreciative: affected or exaggerated refinement or respectability. Occasionally personified.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > pride > pretension to superiority > [noun]

pensifulnessc1450

affectation1548

affection1570

affectedness1622

lady aira1637

fastuousness1649

gentility1650

fastuosity1656

vapouring1656

flatulency1662

hoity-toity1668

pretendingness1701

with an air1701

pretension1706

flatulence1711

uppishness1716

high and mightiness1771

pensieness1825

fine-gentlemanism1831

pretentiousness1838

ambitiousness1845

stuckupishness1853

pretensiveness1859

notion1866

side1870

dog1871

hoity-toityism1881

superiority complex1921

snootiness1932

uppitiness1935

snottiness1973

snoot1984

swag2002

the world > action or operation > behaviour > affected behaviour or affectation > [noun] > affectation of refinement

airs and graces1697

fine-ladyism1799

gentility1821

shabby-gentility1829

gentishness1847

genteelism1849

silver-spoonism1859

posh1915

refainment1933

1650 J. Bulwer Anthropometamorphosis Pref. Their long Nails define Idle Gentilitie's assured Signe.

1754 Connoisseur 18 July 146 The tawdry gentility of a tallow-chandler's daughter.

1800 E. Hervey Mourtray Family I. 3 Barely adequate to keep up the appearance of gentility.

1821 W. Hazlitt Table-talk I. xvi. 376 Gentility is only a more select and artificial kind of vulgarity.

1840 C. Dickens Old Curiosity Shop xv, in Master Humphrey's Clock I. 170 Poor streets where faded gentility essayed..to make its last feeble stand.

1911 National Advocate (Bathurst, Austral.) 19 Aug. 1/5 A..rough and ready squatter from out-back, whose notions of gentility were wonderfully behind those of his lady-wife and high-toned daughters.

1973 R. D. McEldowney Arguing with My Grandmother 12 Gentility would have preferred lace table-mats; poverty was constrained to make do, for everyday use, with flourbags washed until the brand came out and then embroidered.

2001 S. Brett Death on Downs xxxii. 207 Someone who'd been brought up in a council house shouldn't aspire to the middle-class gentility of Weldisham.

b. In plural. Things which are regarded as suited to or indicative of a person's high social status.

ΚΠ

1764 tr. J.-F. Marmontel Moral Tales I. 74 This presage gives to the gentilities of a fine gentleman an air of the marvellous.

1782 R. Bage Mt. Henneth I. 174 The gentilities of dress and education.

1856 C. J. Lever Martins of Cro' Martin 571 The..smartened-up gentilities which once were the glories of Bond-street.

1978 J. Bayley Ess. Hardy (1981) 139 Emma soon acquired the gentilities that she came to feel went with her station.

2004 Times Lit. Suppl. 6 Aug. 22/3 Well-brought up young women used to the gentilities of the drawing-room.

†c. In plural. People of high social status; genteel people. Frequently ironic or depreciative. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > society and the community > social class > nobility > aristocracy or upper class > gentry > [noun] > gentlefolk

gentlesc1405

gentlefolka1556

genteels1652

gentle-people1755

carriage company1812

carriage1819

gentilities1833

1833 W. Brockedon Jrnls. Excursions in Alps x. 169 I had no idea that the gentilities of Wapping had ever extended so far from the Thames.

1856 D. M. Mulock John Halifax II. ii. 29 She..left the already vanquished gentilities of Norton Bury to amuse themselves.

1927 Harper's Mag. Oct. (Insert between pp. 528–529) We'll show all these infernal tories, stick-in-the-mud liberals, labor louts and labor gentilities.

†4. Elegance, grace, or refinement of form or style. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > good taste > refinement > elegance > [noun]

elegancy?a1475

elegance1545

featness1576

garb1591

vagisness1604

fashionableness1640

gentility1753

featliness1843

concinnity1855

1753 W. Hogarth Anal. Beauty xi. 78 The whole gentility of a figure..depends upon the first proportioning these lines..properly one to another.

1782 V. Knox Ess. I. xxviii. 137 The World is written in a style different from all the preceding. There is a certain gaiety and gentility diffused over it , which gives it a peculiar grace.

1851 J. F. Cooper Let. 18 Jan. in Corr. (1971) II. 699 I am just fit to go to Mrs. Hake's party..—the gentility of my shape enabling me to thread a crowd as you would a needle.

†5. In plural. Agreeable things. Obsolete. rare.In quot. used ironically.

ΚΠ

1796 C. Burney tr. P. Metastasio Let. in Mem. Life Metastasio III. 197 The last winter assailed me with rheumatism, tension of nerves, implacable hypochondria, and other gentilities.

II. Senses relating to gentile n. and adj.

†6.

a. Pagan or heathen belief, doctrine, or practice; the state of being a pagan or heathen; paganism, heathenism. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > faith > aspects of faith > theism > paganism > [noun]

heathenessec900

heathenshipa1000

heathendomc1000

idolatrya1325

mammetryc1330

spiritual fornicationa1340

whoredomc1350

prepucya1382

miscreancea1393

imagery1395

gentility?a1425

paganismc1425

paganityc1450

prepucec1475

Mahometry1481

superstitiousness1526

uncircumcision1526

whoring1530

idolry1535

paynimhood1543

image-worshipping1544

paganrya1550

idololatry1550

gentilism1561

old religion1567

heathenishness1571

image worship1572

heathenry1577

irreligiousness?1577

idolatrousness1583

uncircumcisedness1583

irreligion1598

ethnicism1600

infidelity1603

superstition1603

heathenism1605

idolism1608

miscreancy1611

misreligion1623

Baalisma1625

iconolatry1624

idolomania1624

idolomany1624

idolizing1637

idol-worship1667

ethnicity1772

symbololatry1828

Baal-worship1834

irreligionism1843

gentiledom1844

triology1894

?a1425 Three Kings Cologne (Lamb. 491) (2000) 98 Gloriouse Emperour Constantyn..to þe feiþ..was conuertid, clensid of the lepre of his gentilite [L. a leptra carnis gentilitatis] and ydolatrie.

1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection ii. sig. Li^v She had left her gentilite & leaned holle to the sect of the sayd iewes.

1565 J. Jewel Replie Hardinges Answeare viii. 406 The Heathens in their rude Gentilitie thought, that Bacchus, and Ceres had first founde out..the vse of Breade and Wyne.

1650 J. Bulwer Anthropometamorphosis 153 Can either Gentility or Christianity be forgiven such an error?

b. Pagan or heathen people collectively; the pagan or heathen world. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > faith > aspects of faith > theism > paganism > [noun] > person > plural and collective

heathenessec900

heathenc1000

paynimc1275

Barbarya1300

Saracen1303

payenyc1330

nationsa1382

paynimryc1384

ginga1400

heathenheada1400

payemy?a1400

paynimy1481

paganyc1515

gentility1546

paganism1605

gentilisma1638

pagandom1691

heathendom1860

heathenrya1890

1546 T. Langley tr. P. Vergil Abridgem. Notable Worke i. iii. f. vii Thus muche of the vaine opinions of Gentilite.

1582 Annot. (Matt. ii. 11) in Bible (Rheims) 6 These treasures are as it were the first fruites of those riches and gifts, which..Gentilitie should offer to Christ and his Churche.

a1600 (?c1535) tr. H. Boece Hist. Scotl. (Mar Lodge) (1946) ii. iv. 83 Ye offerandis of ye pepill, assignit to yare immortale goddis, conforme to the ritis of gentilite.

7. Roman History.

a. A number of families united by the ties of a supposed common origin, a common name, and common religious rites; = gens n. a. Cf. gentile n. 4. rare.

ΘΚΠ

society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinship group > clan > [noun]

surname1455

sept1518

clana1522

gentility1583

blooda1599

horde1826

gens1855

1583 Sir T. Smith's De Republica Anglorum iii. vi. 103 The surname is the name of the gentilitie and stocke which the sonne doth take of the father alwaies, as the olde Romans did.

1955 F. S. Kosmerl Rom. Private Law I. vi. 83 In order to belong to this, one must..be in one of the families, which did form the gens, and gave notice of this by means of the addition of the name of the gentility to the name of the family.

b. The relationship between members of the same gens (see sense 7a). Now rare.

ΘΚΠ

society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinship group > clan > [noun] > bond or relationship

gentility1718

gentilism1847

1718 M. Shelton Hist. & Crit. Ess. True Rise Nobility iv. 47 For that is false which some..have deliver'd, viz. That Gentility was proper only to the Patricii; since it was common to the vulgar sort of People.

1883 H. S. Maine Diss. Early Law & Custom 283 The Romans, therefore, regarded ‘gentility’ as a kinship among men not essentially different from ‘agnation’.

2000 tr. Pliny the Younger Panegyric in A. Wallace-Hadrill in J. Edmondson Augustus viii. 258 The possessions which they had earned by their blood, gentility and common share in rites.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2021; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	gentility
释义	gentilityn. Brit. /dʒɛnˈtɪlᵻti/, U.S. /dʒɛnˈtɪlᵻdi/ Forms: Middle English gentylete, Middle English–1500s gentilite, 1500s gentilitee, 1500s gentilllitye, 1500s gentletie, 1500s gentyllitie, 1500s–1600s gentilitie, 1500s–1600s gentillity, 1500s– gentility; also Scottish pre-1700 gentilite, 1800s–1900s genteelity. Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French gentilité; Latin gentīlitāt-, gentīlitās. Etymology: < Anglo-Norman and Middle French, French gentilité, Middle French gentillité nobility of character (a1304 in Old French), condition or state of being a gentleman (mid 14th cent.), paganism, pagan people collectively (both late 15th cent.), and its etymon (ii) classical Latin gentīlitāt-, gentīlitās relationship between the members of a gens, members of a gens or family, nationality, relationship (of natural species), in post-classical Latin also paganism, pagan belief, heathendom, heathens (Vulgate; early 3rd cent. in Tertullian), barbarians, foreigners (4th cent.) < gentīlis (see gentile n. and adj., and compare gentle adj., n., and adv., genteel adj., n., and adv.) + -tās (see -ty suffix¹; compare -ity suffix).This word serves as noun of quality both to gentile n. and adj. and genteel adj., and also to gentle adj. in those senses which correspond to obsolete senses of genteel adj. I. Senses relating to gentle adj., n., and adv., genteel adj., n., and adv. 1. a. Gentle birth; good lineage; the fact of being of good lineage. Also: the character of a person of gentle birth. Occasionally personified. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social class > nobility > aristocracy or upper class > gentry > [noun] > gentility gentilesse1340 gentility1340 gentlenessc1425 genteelness1636 gentrice1722 ingenuousness1796 gentlehood1861 1340 Ayenbite (1866) 89 Hy ham yelpeþ of hare gentylete uor þet hy weneþ by of gentile woze. 1582 R. Stanyhurst tr. Virgil First Foure Bookes Æneis i. 5 What syrs? your boldnesse dooth your gentilitie warrant? 1642 Londons Love sig. A2 Gentility without wealth staggers like a sicke man. a1677 I. Barrow Wks. (1686) III. 244 Courage and Courtesie..without which gentility in a conspicuous degree is no more than a vain shew. 1689 J. Collier Moral Ess. conc. Pride 59 An antient Gentility does not necessarily convey to us any advantage either of Body or Mind. 1791 J. Boswell Life Johnson anno 1765 I. 268 A new system of gentility might be established. 1876 M. Oliphant Makers of Florence iv. 105 He had no claim to gentility, and was only a ‘natural person’, an Italian clown. 2013 Huntington Libr. Q. 76 548 The peacocks on the Smith coat of arms indicate the Tudor origins of their gentility. b. Chiefly with the. People of gentle birth collectively; the gentry. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social class > nobility > aristocracy or upper class > gentry > [noun] gentle bloodc1300 genta1425 gentrya1525 gentility1583 gallantry1609 gentlery1609 second nobles1625 1583 Sir T. Smith's De Republica Anglorum ii. i. 34 The nobilitie, the rest of the gentilitie, and the yeomanrie. 1584 T. Cogan Hauen of Health iv. 25 Bread..made in forme of manchet, as is used of the gentilitie. 1622 T. Scott Belgicke Pismire 27 Their breede is from the lazie scumme of counterfeit Gentilitie. 1775 G. Stuart tr. J. L. de Lolme Constit. Eng. ii. 40 When the Gentility..pillaged and committed exactions on the peasantry, they called the poor sufferer, in derision, Jaques bonhomme. 1836 Sel. from Edinb. Rev. 6 135 The system of gavel-kind..was always a greater favourite with the farmers and peasantry than with the gentility. 2013 B. Bonner Paging the Dead 263 Dorothy..liked to pretend she was descended from gentility all the way back to some manor house in England. c. The rank or status of a gentleman (gentleman n. 1a), sometimes associated with the right to wear or display heraldic arms. Now historical and rare. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social class > nobility > aristocracy or upper class > gentry > [noun] > gentleman > quality or rank of gentleman gentry1447 gentlemanship1541 gentility1642 1642 W. Bird Mag. of Honour 150 If one be, a Gentleman by Office, and looseth his office, then he doth also lose his gentility. 1827 H. Hallam Constit. Hist. Eng. I. vi. 389 Floyd was adjudged to be degraded from his gentility. 1904 A. C. Fox-Davies Art Heraldry iii. 11/1 Arms are the sign of the technical rank of gentility. 1966 M. Prestwich Cranfield iv. 162 There was an alarming suggestion that the 7,000 families who had become armigerous since 1568 should lose their gentility ‘unless they will give twenty or thirty pound for confirmation of their gentry’. †2. The graciousness or refinement traditionally associated with a person of high social position; polish; politeness; courtesy. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > good behaviour > [noun] > good manners or polite behaviour > as a result of good breeding gentilesse1340 gentryc1390 afaitementc1400 gentleness?c1400 gentility1590 breeding1600 good breeding1603 genteelism1849 society > society and the community > social class > nobility > aristocracy or upper class > gentry > [noun] > manners characteristic of gentlefolk gentility1590 1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene iii. vi. sig. Gg8^v Such wilde woodes should far expell All ciuile vsage and gentility. 1598 W. Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost i. i. 127 A dangerous law against gentletie . View more context for this quotation 3. a. Social superiority as shown by behaviour, appearances, manners, etc.; genteel nature or quality. Frequently (esp. in later use) depreciative: affected or exaggerated refinement or respectability. Occasionally personified. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > pride > pretension to superiority > [noun] pensifulnessc1450 affectation1548 affection1570 affectedness1622 lady aira1637 fastuousness1649 gentility1650 fastuosity1656 vapouring1656 flatulency1662 hoity-toity1668 pretendingness1701 with an air1701 pretension1706 flatulence1711 uppishness1716 high and mightiness1771 pensieness1825 fine-gentlemanism1831 pretentiousness1838 ambitiousness1845 stuckupishness1853 pretensiveness1859 notion1866 side1870 dog1871 hoity-toityism1881 superiority complex1921 snootiness1932 uppitiness1935 snottiness1973 snoot1984 swag2002 the world > action or operation > behaviour > affected behaviour or affectation > [noun] > affectation of refinement airs and graces1697 fine-ladyism1799 gentility1821 shabby-gentility1829 gentishness1847 genteelism1849 silver-spoonism1859 posh1915 refainment1933 1650 J. Bulwer Anthropometamorphosis Pref. Their long Nails define Idle Gentilitie's assured Signe. 1754 Connoisseur 18 July 146 The tawdry gentility of a tallow-chandler's daughter. 1800 E. Hervey Mourtray Family I. 3 Barely adequate to keep up the appearance of gentility. 1821 W. Hazlitt Table-talk I. xvi. 376 Gentility is only a more select and artificial kind of vulgarity. 1840 C. Dickens Old Curiosity Shop xv, in Master Humphrey's Clock I. 170 Poor streets where faded gentility essayed..to make its last feeble stand. 1911 National Advocate (Bathurst, Austral.) 19 Aug. 1/5 A..rough and ready squatter from out-back, whose notions of gentility were wonderfully behind those of his lady-wife and high-toned daughters. 1973 R. D. McEldowney Arguing with My Grandmother 12 Gentility would have preferred lace table-mats; poverty was constrained to make do, for everyday use, with flourbags washed until the brand came out and then embroidered. 2001 S. Brett Death on Downs xxxii. 207 Someone who'd been brought up in a council house shouldn't aspire to the middle-class gentility of Weldisham. b. In plural. Things which are regarded as suited to or indicative of a person's high social status. ΚΠ 1764 tr. J.-F. Marmontel Moral Tales I. 74 This presage gives to the gentilities of a fine gentleman an air of the marvellous. 1782 R. Bage Mt. Henneth I. 174 The gentilities of dress and education. 1856 C. J. Lever Martins of Cro' Martin 571 The..smartened-up gentilities which once were the glories of Bond-street. 1978 J. Bayley Ess. Hardy (1981) 139 Emma soon acquired the gentilities that she came to feel went with her station. 2004 Times Lit. Suppl. 6 Aug. 22/3 Well-brought up young women used to the gentilities of the drawing-room. †c. In plural. People of high social status; genteel people. Frequently ironic or depreciative. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social class > nobility > aristocracy or upper class > gentry > [noun] > gentlefolk gentlesc1405 gentlefolka1556 genteels1652 gentle-people1755 carriage company1812 carriage1819 gentilities1833 1833 W. Brockedon Jrnls. Excursions in Alps x. 169 I had no idea that the gentilities of Wapping had ever extended so far from the Thames. 1856 D. M. Mulock John Halifax II. ii. 29 She..left the already vanquished gentilities of Norton Bury to amuse themselves. 1927 Harper's Mag. Oct. (Insert between pp. 528–529) We'll show all these infernal tories, stick-in-the-mud liberals, labor louts and labor gentilities. †4. Elegance, grace, or refinement of form or style. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > good taste > refinement > elegance > [noun] elegancy?a1475 elegance1545 featness1576 garb1591 vagisness1604 fashionableness1640 gentility1753 featliness1843 concinnity1855 1753 W. Hogarth Anal. Beauty xi. 78 The whole gentility of a figure..depends upon the first proportioning these lines..properly one to another. 1782 V. Knox Ess. I. xxviii. 137 The World is written in a style different from all the preceding. There is a certain gaiety and gentility diffused over it , which gives it a peculiar grace. 1851 J. F. Cooper Let. 18 Jan. in Corr. (1971) II. 699 I am just fit to go to Mrs. Hake's party..—the gentility of my shape enabling me to thread a crowd as you would a needle. †5. In plural. Agreeable things. Obsolete. rare.In quot. used ironically. ΚΠ 1796 C. Burney tr. P. Metastasio Let. in Mem. Life Metastasio III. 197 The last winter assailed me with rheumatism, tension of nerves, implacable hypochondria, and other gentilities. II. Senses relating to gentile n. and adj. †6. a. Pagan or heathen belief, doctrine, or practice; the state of being a pagan or heathen; paganism, heathenism. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > faith > aspects of faith > theism > paganism > [noun] heathenessec900 heathenshipa1000 heathendomc1000 idolatrya1325 mammetryc1330 spiritual fornicationa1340 whoredomc1350 prepucya1382 miscreancea1393 imagery1395 gentility?a1425 paganismc1425 paganityc1450 prepucec1475 Mahometry1481 superstitiousness1526 uncircumcision1526 whoring1530 idolry1535 paynimhood1543 image-worshipping1544 paganrya1550 idololatry1550 gentilism1561 old religion1567 heathenishness1571 image worship1572 heathenry1577 irreligiousness?1577 idolatrousness1583 uncircumcisedness1583 irreligion1598 ethnicism1600 infidelity1603 superstition1603 heathenism1605 idolism1608 miscreancy1611 misreligion1623 Baalisma1625 iconolatry1624 idolomania1624 idolomany1624 idolizing1637 idol-worship1667 ethnicity1772 symbololatry1828 Baal-worship1834 irreligionism1843 gentiledom1844 triology1894 ?a1425 Three Kings Cologne (Lamb. 491) (2000) 98 Gloriouse Emperour Constantyn..to þe feiþ..was conuertid, clensid of the lepre of his gentilite [L. a leptra carnis gentilitatis] and ydolatrie. 1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection ii. sig. Li^v She had left her gentilite & leaned holle to the sect of the sayd iewes. 1565 J. Jewel Replie Hardinges Answeare viii. 406 The Heathens in their rude Gentilitie thought, that Bacchus, and Ceres had first founde out..the vse of Breade and Wyne. 1650 J. Bulwer Anthropometamorphosis 153 Can either Gentility or Christianity be forgiven such an error? b. Pagan or heathen people collectively; the pagan or heathen world. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > faith > aspects of faith > theism > paganism > [noun] > person > plural and collective heathenessec900 heathenc1000 paynimc1275 Barbarya1300 Saracen1303 payenyc1330 nationsa1382 paynimryc1384 ginga1400 heathenheada1400 payemy?a1400 paynimy1481 paganyc1515 gentility1546 paganism1605 gentilisma1638 pagandom1691 heathendom1860 heathenrya1890 1546 T. Langley tr. P. Vergil Abridgem. Notable Worke i. iii. f. vii Thus muche of the vaine opinions of Gentilite. 1582 Annot. (Matt. ii. 11) in Bible (Rheims) 6 These treasures are as it were the first fruites of those riches and gifts, which..Gentilitie should offer to Christ and his Churche. a1600 (?c1535) tr. H. Boece Hist. Scotl. (Mar Lodge) (1946) ii. iv. 83 Ye offerandis of ye pepill, assignit to yare immortale goddis, conforme to the ritis of gentilite. 7. Roman History. a. A number of families united by the ties of a supposed common origin, a common name, and common religious rites; = gens n. a. Cf. gentile n. 4. rare. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinship group > clan > [noun] surname1455 sept1518 clana1522 gentility1583 blooda1599 horde1826 gens1855 1583 Sir T. Smith's De Republica Anglorum iii. vi. 103 The surname is the name of the gentilitie and stocke which the sonne doth take of the father alwaies, as the olde Romans did. 1955 F. S. Kosmerl Rom. Private Law I. vi. 83 In order to belong to this, one must..be in one of the families, which did form the gens, and gave notice of this by means of the addition of the name of the gentility to the name of the family. b. The relationship between members of the same gens (see sense 7a). Now rare. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinship group > clan > [noun] > bond or relationship gentility1718 gentilism1847 1718 M. Shelton Hist. & Crit. Ess. True Rise Nobility iv. 47 For that is false which some..have deliver'd, viz. That Gentility was proper only to the Patricii; since it was common to the vulgar sort of People. 1883 H. S. Maine Diss. Early Law & Custom 283 The Romans, therefore, regarded ‘gentility’ as a kinship among men not essentially different from ‘agnation’. 2000 tr. Pliny the Younger Panegyric in A. Wallace-Hadrill in J. Edmondson Augustus viii. 258 The possessions which they had earned by their blood, gentility and common share in rites. 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