Word Meanings - GENTLY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

In a gentle manner. My mistress gently chides the fault I made. Dryden.

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• CHIDESTER
  A female scold.
• FAULTINESS
  Quality or state of being faulty. Round, even to faultiness. Shak.
• MISTRESS
  magistrissa, for L. magistra, fem. of magister. See Master, Mister, 1. A woman having power, authority, or ownership; a woman who exercises authority, is chief, etc.; the female head of a family, a school, etc. The late queen's gentlewoman!
• GENTLEWOMAN
  1. A woman of good family or of good breeding; a woman above the vulgar. Bacon. 2. A woman who attends a lady of high rank. Shak.
• FAULT
  A lost scent; act of losing the scent. Ceasing their clamorous cry till they have singled, With much ado, the cold fault cleary out. Shak. (more info) falta), fr. a verb meaning to want, fail, freq., fr. L. fallere to 1. Defect; want;
• FAULTING
  The state or condition of being faulted; the process by which a fault is produced.
• 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
• GENTLE-HEARTED
  Having a kind or gentle disposition. Shak. -- Gen"tle-heart`ed*ness, n.
• GENTLEMANHOOD
  The qualities or condition of a gentleman. Thackeray.
• GENTLEMANLIKE; GENTLEMANLY
  Of, pertaining to, resembling, or becoming, a gentleman; well- behaved; courteous; polite.
• FAULT-FINDING
  The act of finding fault or blaming; -- used derogatively. Also Adj.
• GENTLE
  F. gentil noble, pretty, graceful, fr. L. gentilis of the same clan or race, fr. gens, gentis, tribe, clan, race, orig. that which belongs together by birth, fr. the root of genere, gignere, to beget; hence gentle, properly, of birth or family,
• MISTRESSSHIP
  1. Female rule or dominion. 2. Ladyship, a style of address; -- with the personal pronoun. Massinger.
• GENTLEMEN'S AGREEMENT
  An agreement binding only as a matter of honor; often, specif., such an agreement among the heads of industrial or merchantile enterprises, the terms of which could not be included and enforced in a legal contract.
• GENTLENESS
  The quality or state of being gentle, well-born, mild, benevolent, docile, etc.; gentility; softness of manners, disposition, etc.; mildness.
• MANNERLINESS
  The quality or state of being mannerly; civility; complaisance. Sir M. Hale.
• GENTLEMAN
  One who bears arms, but has no title. 4. The servant of a man of rank. The count's gentleman, one Cesario. Shak. 5. A man, irrespective of condition; -- used esp. in the plural (= citizens; people), in addressing men in popular assemblies, etc.
• GENTLEMANLINESS
  The state of being gentlemanly; gentlemanly conduct or manners.
• PICK-FAULT
  One who seeks out faults.
• UNMANNERLY
  Not mannerly; ill-bred; rude. -- adv.
• NEGLIGENTLY
  In a negligent manner.
• INTELLIGENTLY
  In an intelligent manner; with intelligence.
• INDULGENTLY
  In an indulgent manner; mildly; favorably. Dryden.
• FULGENTLY
  Dazzlingly; glitteringly.
• FINDFAULTING
  Apt to censure or cavil; faultfinding; captious. Whitlock.
• OVERMANNER
  In an excessive manner; excessively. Wiclif.
• CONTINGENTLY
  In a contingent manner; without design or foresight; accidentally.
• ASTRINGENTLY
  In an astringent manner.