英语词汇“gentility”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

单词	gentility
释义	gen·til·i·ty \jen.ˈtiləd.ē, -ətē, -i\ noun (-es) Etymology: Middle English gentilete, from Middle French gentileté, from Latin gentilitat-, gentilitas state or condition of belonging to the same clan or family, from gentilis of the same clan or family + -itat-, -itas -ity — more at gentle 1. a. : the condition of belonging to the gentry or to a class ranking above the commonalty : gentle birth or status < when her family lost its money … she lost her gentility and was allowed to work — Virginia Woolf > b. : the members of the upper classgentlefolk, gentry < a ball given by the governor for the gentility — Esther Forbes > < the social strata midway between the lower gentility and the upper class of poor white — Ellen Glasgow > < recruit its nobility and gentility from loyal servants of … middle-class origin — J.W.Saunders > c. : the rank or heraldic status of a gentleman < the purchase of gentility from the heralds was resented by the county gentry — F.P.Bornard > 2. a. (1) : niceness, refinement, or decorum of conduct or manner : civility, polish, elegance, politeness < the gentility and sweet tolerance of liberal methods of government — S.L.A.Marshall > < combined … natural gentility and refinement of manner — G.R.Stewart > < a French trading post … with morals and manners that did not err on the side of gentility — American Guide Series: Michigan > (2) : extreme or excessive regard for conventional morality or ideals : the display of false delicacy, prudery, affectation, or excessive refinement especially in cultural attitudes or activity < instrumental in … the freeing of American letters from the bonds of gentility — Alexander Klein > < an impassioned diatribe against gentility in American literature — Mark Schorer > < the pervading malady of educated folk in late-nineteenth-century America — gentility — F.L.Allen > b. (1) : superior social status or prestige evidenced by manners, possessions, mode of life, or associations < an academy … famous for its gentility — Nathaniel Burt > < the hat, like the sandals … were marks of gentility — Elizabeth Janeway > < the characteristic American attempt to maintain gentility by means of a detached house — G.R.Stewart > (2) : the maintenance of the air, forms, or pretense of superior or middle-class social status especially in the face of decayed elegance or prosperity < a shabby gentility displayed against a … dreary background — David Daiches > < look of respectable but threadbare gentility — New York Times >
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