ungentlemanv.
transitive. To deprive of the standing or character of a gentleman. Also reflexive.
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society > society and the community > social class > nobility > rank > raising to noble rank > divesting of rank or title > divesting of rank, title, or character [verb (transitive)] > of gentleman
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1671 F. Philipps Regale Necessarium 204 A man disenabled, or ungentleman'd by reason of his Fathers attainder of Treason.
1713 W. Darrell Gentleman Instructed (ed. 5) iii. vi. 419 Some tell me home-breeding will ungentleman him.
1719 D. Defoe Serious Refl. ii. 58 The minute he does that, he ungentlemans himself.
1752 Ld. Chesterfield Let. in Misc. Wks. (1777) II. 558 I..am persuaded, that you do not give into this cochonnerie, which ungentlemans every body.
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