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gentleship

gentleship noun: the deportment or conduct of a gentleman.

Noun

gentleship (uncountable)

  1. (obsolete) The deportment or conduct of a gentleman.
    • men will […]have more gentleship in their hat than in their heada. 1569 (date written), Roger Ascham, edited by Margaret Ascham, The Scholemaster: Or Plaine and Perfite Way of Teaching Children, to Vnderstand, Write, and Speake, the Latin Tong, […], London: […]...

Origin of gentleship

From gentle + -ship.

Questions about gentleship

What does gentleship mean?
Gentleship means the deportment or conduct of a gentleman.
What part of speech is gentleship?
Gentleship is a noun.

Words near gentleship in the dictionary

  1. gentlepersonly
  2. gentlepersons
  3. gentler
  4. gentler sex
  5. gentles
  6. gentleship
  7. gentlesir
  8. gentlesirs
  9. gentlesome
  10. gentlesse
  11. gentlest

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