gentility

noun

/dʒenˈtɪləti/

[uncountable] (formal)

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very good manners and behaviour; the fact of belonging to a high social class
- He took her hand with discreet gentility.
- She thinks expensive clothes are a mark of gentility.
the fact of being quiet and old-fashioned
- the faded gentility of the town

Word OriginMiddle English (in the sense ‘honourable birth’): from Old French gentilite, from gentil ‘high-born, noble’, from Latin gentilis ‘of the same clan’, from gens, gent- ‘family, race’, from the root of gignere ‘beget’.

单词	gentility
释义	gentility noun /dʒenˈtɪləti/ /dʒenˈtɪləti/ [uncountable] (formal) jump to other results very good manners and behaviour; the fact of belonging to a high social class He took her hand with discreet gentility. She thinks expensive clothes are a mark of gentility. the fact of being quiet and old-fashioned the faded gentility of the town Word OriginMiddle English (in the sense ‘honourable birth’): from Old French gentilite, from gentil ‘high-born, noble’, from Latin gentilis ‘of the same clan’, from gens, gent- ‘family, race’, from the root of gignere ‘beget’.
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