Gentility

(n.) Good extraction; dignity of birth.

(n.) The quality or qualities appropriate to those who are well born, as self-respect, dignity, courage, courtesy, politeness of manner, a graceful and easy mien and behavior, etc.; good breeding.

(n.) The class in society who are, or are expected to be, genteel; the gentry.

(n.) Paganism; heathenism.

克莱儿整理

• I had imagined him, I confess, a degree or two nearer gentility. 简·奥斯汀. 爱玛.
• I have frequently thought that I must have been intended by nature to be fond of low company, I am so little at my ease among strangers of gentility! 简·奥斯汀. 理智与情感.
• He is very plain, undoubtedlyremarkably plain:but that is nothing compared with his entire want of gentility. 简·奥斯汀. 爱玛.
• They plume them-selves on their gentility there, I can tell you, if that's any satisfaction. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• Such was the blood of gentility which Emma had formerly been so ready to vouch for! 简·奥斯汀. 爱玛.
• His being a clergyman would be only for gentility's sake, and I think there is nothing more contemptible than such imbecile gentility. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• Jos liked to hear it, but the Major used to go off growling at the appearance of this woman, with her twopenny gentility. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• Her sister asserted the family gentility by flouting the poor swain as he loitered about the prison for glimpses of his dear. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• Old Mr. Letterblair, the accredited legal adviser of three generations of New York gentility, throned behind his mahogany desk in evident perplexity. 伊迪丝·华顿. 纯真年代.
• For a time, therefore, the old families and country gentility sent their servants and their luggage by train, but themselves jogged along the old post-roads in the family chariots. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• The proud mother's world was not their world of Harley Street gentilities on the one hand, or country clergymen and Hampshire squires on the other. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.

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