EGAVE

gentility

About 0.45 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. noun The state of being elegant, genteel, having good breeding, or being socially superior.
  2. noun The upper classes, the gentry.

Similar words

genteelness refinement breeding ungenteelness gentlemanliness elegantness ungentility classiness nobility gracefulness

Often followed by

and of in was that is to which as

Word family

gentilities

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