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Word Meanings - GENTLENESS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The quality or state of being gentle, well-born, mild, benevolent, docile, etc.; gentility; softness of manners, disposition, etc.; mildness.

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  • DOCILITY
    1. teachableness; aptness for being taught; docibleness. 2. Willingness to be taught; tractableness. The humble docility of little children is, in the New Testament, represented as a necessary preparative to the reception of the Christian faith.
  • MILDNESS
    The quality or state of being mild; as, mildness of temper; the mildness of the winter.
  • GENTLENESS
    The quality or state of being gentle, well-born, mild, benevolent, docile, etc.; gentility; softness of manners, disposition, etc.; mildness.
  • MANSUETUDE
    Tameness; gentleness; mildness.
  • TAMENESS
    The quality or state of being tame.
  • INDOCILITY
    The quality or state of being indocile; dullness of intellect; unteachableness; intractableness. The stiffness and indocility of the Pharisees. W. Montagu.

 

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