单词 | gentleness |
释义 | gentleness (once / 831 pages) n Gentleness is the quality of being kind and careful. Your gentleness with a frightened stray dog will eventually convince her to let you feed and pet her. The noun gentleness is perfect for describing the way someone acts when they are soft and calm and sweet to other people. A good kindergarten teacher speaks to his students with gentleness, and your favorite dentist might be one who treats you with gentleness. The original meaning, from around 1300, was "inherited nature," but by the 1600s it had come to mean "freedom from harshness and violence," with the Latin root gentilis, "of the same family or clan." WORD FAMILYgentleness: gentlenesses+/gentility: gentilities/gentle: gentility, gentled, gentlely, gentleness, gentler, gentles, gentlest, gentling, gently, ungentle/ungentle: ungently USAGE EXAMPLESIt also served as a bond between nephew and uncle, a man whose gentleness was a gift all its own. Washington Post(Dec 19, 2016) “We are taught to walk with gentleness,” added a young Lakota woman who braves mace, tear gas, and rubber bullets on the protest’s front line. Time(Nov 29, 2016) They need to see a little gentleness and good intent. Wall Street Journal(Nov 18, 2016) 1n acting in a manner that is gentle and mild and even-tempered his fingers have learned gentleness Syn|Hyper mildness, softness manner, personal manner a way of acting or behaving 2n the property possessed by a slope that is very gradual Syn|Ant|Hyper gradualness abruptness, precipitousness, steepness the property possessed by a slope that is very steep gradient, slope the property possessed by a line or surface that departs from the horizontal |
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