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gentlemanship|ˈdʒɛnt(ə)lmənʃɪp|
[-ship.]
1. Gentlemanhood; the position, character, or conduct of a gentleman.
1541Paynel Catiline xix. 34 b, Sometyme his newe gentilmanshyp was objected agaynste hym. 1613R. Cawdrey Table Alph. (ed. 3), Gentilitie, gentry, nobilitie, gentlemanship. 1790Cowper Let. to Lady Hesketh 7 July, Wks. 1836 IV. 198 Princes and peers reduced to plain gentlemanship. 1870Athenæum 22 Oct. 523 He had, by right of Irish gentlemanship, been living at free quarters wherever he could thrust himself. 1881Blackie Lay Serm. vi. 216 The normal type of manhood, gentlemanship [etc.].
2. The office of a gentleman (-in-waiting, etc.).
a1613Overbury A Wife, etc. (1638) 120 The last yeare of his gentlemanship. 1864Carlyle Fredk. Gt. IV. 252 Gentlemanship of the Chamber. |