Word Meanings - GENTILESSE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Gentleness; courtesy; kindness; nobility. Chaucer.

NOBILITY
1. The quality or state of being noble; superiority of mind or of character; commanding excellence; eminence. Though she hated Amphialus, yet the nobility of her courage prevailed over it. Sir P. Sidney. They thought it great their sovereign to
KINDNESS
1. The state or quality of being kind, in any of its various senses; manifestation of kind feeling or disposition beneficence. I do fear thy nature; It is too full o' the milk of human kindness To catch the nearest way. Shak. Unremembered acts
GENTLENESS
The quality or state of being gentle, well-born, mild, benevolent, docile, etc.; gentility; softness of manners, disposition, etc.; mildness.
COURTESY
corteisie, courtesie, OF. curteisie, cortoisie, OF. curteisie, 1. Politeness; civility; urbanity; courtliness. And trust thy honest-offered courtesy, With oft is sooner found in lowly sheds, With smoky rafters, than in tapestry walls And courts
LOVING-KINDNESS
Tender regard; mercy; favor. Ps. lxxxix. 33.
DISCOURTESY
Rudeness of behavior or language; ill manners; manifestation of disrespect; incivility. Be calm in arguing; for fierceness makes Error a fault, and truth discourtesy. Herbert.
IGNOBILITY
Ignobleness. Bale.
DISKINDNESS
Unkindness; disservice. A. Tucker.