Word Meanings - GALLANTLY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

In a polite or courtly manner; like a gallant or wooer.

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• POLITENESS
  1. High finish; smoothness; burnished elegance. Evelyn. 2. The quality or state of being polite; refinement of manners; urbanity; courteous behavior; complaisance; obliging attentions. Syn. -- Courtesy; good breeding; refinement; urbanity;
• POLITE
  1. Smooth; polished. Rays of light falling on a polite surface. Sir I. Newton. 2. Smooth and refined in behavior or manners; well bred; courteous; complaisant; obliging; civil. He marries, bows at court, and grows polite. Pope. 3. Characterized
• GALLANTLY
  In a polite or courtly manner; like a gallant or wooer.
• MANNERIST
  One addicted to mannerism; a person who, in action, bearing, or treatment, carries characteristic peculiarities to excess. See citation under Mannerism.
• MANNERISM
  Adherence to a peculiar style or manner; a characteristic mode of action, bearing, or treatment, carried to excess, especially in literature or art. Mannerism is pardonable,and is sometimes even agreeable, when the manner, though vicious, is natural
• GALLANTNESS
  The quality of being gallant.
• POLITESSE
  Politeness.
• WOOER
  One who wooes; one who courts or solicits in love; a suitor. "A thriving wooer." Gibber.
• POLITELY
  1. In a polished manner; so as to be smooth or glossy. Milton. 2. In a polite manner; with politeness.
• MANNERLINESS
  The quality or state of being mannerly; civility; complaisance. Sir M. Hale.
• GALLANT
  akin to OF. gale amusement, It. gala ornament; of German origin; cf. OHG. geil merry, luxuriant, wanton, G. geil lascivious, akin to AS. g wanton, wicked, OS. g merry, Goth. gailjan to make to rejoice, or 1. Showy; splendid; magnificent;
• MANNERED
  1. Having a certain way, esp a. polite way, of carrying and conducting one's self. Give her princely training, that she may be Mannered as she is born. Shak. 2. Affected with mannerism; marked by excess of some characteristic peculiarity. His style
• MANNER
  manual, skillful, handy, fr. LL. manarius, for L. manuarius 1. Mode of action; way of performing or effecting anything; method; style; form; fashion. The nations which thou hast removed, and placed in the cities of Samaria, know not the manner
• MANNERCHOR
  A German men's chorus or singing club.
• MANNERLY
  Showing good manners; civil; respectful; complaisant. What thou thinkest meet, and is most mannerly. Shak.
• COURTLY
  1. Relating or belonging to a court. 2. Elegant; polite; courtlike; flattering. In courtly company or at my beads. Shak. 3. Disposed to favor the great; favoring the policy or party of the court; obsequious. Macualay.
• GALLANTRY
  1. Splendor of appearance; ostentatious finery. Guess the gallantry of our church by this . . . when the desk whereon the priest read was inlaid with plates of silver. Fuller. 2. Bravery; intrepidity; as, the troops behaved with great gallantry.
• ANTHROPOLITE
  A petrifaction of the human body, or of any portion of it.
• UNMANNERLY
  Not mannerly; ill-bred; rude. -- adv.
• UNPOLITE
  Not polite; impolite; rude. -- Un`po*lite"ly, adv. -- Un`po*lite"ness, n.
• POSPOLITE
  A kind of militia in Poland, consisting of the gentry, which, in case of invasion, was summoned to the defense of the country.
• IMPOLITE
  Not polite; not of polished manners; wanting in good manners; discourteous; uncivil; rude. -- Im`po*lite"ly, adv. -- Im`po*lite"ness, n.
• TYPOLITE
  A stone or fossil which has on it impressions or figures of plants and animals.
• METROPOLITE
  A metropolitan. Barrow.
• OVERMANNER
  In an excessive manner; excessively. Wiclif.
• CARPOLITE
  A general term for a fossil fruit, nut, or seed.
• TOPGALLANT
  Situated above the topmast and below the royal mast; designatb, or pertaining to, the third spars in order from the deck; as, the topgallant mast, yards, braces, and the like. See Illustration of Ship. 2. Fig.: Highest; elevated; splendid. "The
• COSMOPOLITAN; COSMOPOLITE
  One who has no fixed residence, or who is at home in every place; a citizen of the world.
• ILL-MANNERED
  Impolite; rude.