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gentlewomanlike

gentlewomanlike adjective: characteristic of a gentlewoman; having the qualities of a gentlewoman.

Adjective

gentlewomanlike (comparative more gentlewomanlike, superlative most gentlewomanlike)

  1. Characteristic of a gentlewoman; having the qualities of a gentlewoman.
    • She is good-looking, civil, and gentlewomanlike.1862, Melesina Chenevix St. George Trench, Richard Chenevix Trench, The Remains of the Late Mrs. Richard Trench, page 113
    • His wife, who was a coarse, vulgar woman, in the meantime died, and he afterwards married the daughter of an innkeeper , who proved as gentlewomanlike as the other had been the reverse, and who is very pretty besides.1874, Charles Greville, Henry Reeve, The Greville Memoirs, page 335

Adverb

gentlewomanlike (comparative more gentlewomanlike, superlative most gentlewomanlike)

  1. In a manner befitting a gentlewoman.
    • For you shall have some, yea many thousands, that live uppon nothing els, and yet go clothed gentlewomanlike both in their silks, and otherwyse, with their fingers clogged with rings, their wrists with bracelets and jewels, and their purses full of gold and silver.1596, John Payne Collier, Miscellaneous tracts: temp. Eliz. & Jac. 1 - Volumes 9-11, page 101
    • To clarify the spirit in which he undertakes the repayment of his loan, Mountford dresses himself "gentlemanlike" and requires Susan to dress "gentlewomanlike."1985, Lena Cowen Orlin, Man's house as his castle in Elizabethan domestic tragedy, page 204

Forms of gentlewomanlike

Adjective
comparativemore gentlewomanlike
superlativemost gentlewomanlike
Adverb
comparativemore gentlewomanlike
superlativemost gentlewomanlike

Origin of gentlewomanlike

From gentlewoman + -like.

Words formed from gentlewomanlike

Questions about gentlewomanlike

What does gentlewomanlike mean?
Gentlewomanlike means characteristic of a gentlewoman; having the qualities of a gentlewoman.
What part of speech is gentlewomanlike?
Gentlewomanlike can be an adjective or an adverb.

Words near gentlewomanlike in the dictionary

  1. gentlest
  2. gentlethem
  3. gentlethems
  4. gentlewoman
  5. gentlewomanhood
  6. gentlewomanlike
  7. gentlewomanliness
  8. gentlewomanly
  9. gentlewomen
  10. gentlier
  11. gentliest

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