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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.
  • FINDFAULT
    A censurer or caviler.
  • CONTINGENTLY
    In a contingent manner; without design or foresight; accidentally.

 

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