| 单词 | gentlemanize |
| 释义 | > as lemmasˈgentlemaˌnize ˈgentlemaˌnize v. colloquial rare transitive to make (a man) into a gentleman. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social class > nobility > rank > raising to noble rank > ennoble [verb (transitive)] i-atheliea1000 ennoblish1483 nobilitate?c1500 ennoble1597 ennoblize1598 noblify1600 gentlemanize1784 1784 Town & Country Mag. Nov. 595/2 [He] had blacked his master's shoes in the afternoon, before he had undergone the process of being gentlemanized by his barber. 1826 Gentleman's Mag. June 521/2 He was a man who could have gentlemanized Johnson so as to please Chesterfield. 2005 Africa News (Nexis) 12 Sept. In this land where the workman copies the lower middle class, who copies the upper middle class, who imitates and takes its cue from the sovereign, everyone needs to gentlemanise himself. < as lemmas |
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