Gentility is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for GENTILITY in dictionary:

NOUN:
• good birth or extraction
• social superiority as demonstrated by polite and respectable manners, behaviour, or appearances
• noble birth or ancestry
• Good extraction; dignity of birth.
• 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.
• The class in society who are, or are expected to be, genteel; the gentry.
• Paganism; heathenism.
• elegance by virtue of fineness of manner and expression
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• the condition of belonging to the gentry; gentlefolk, gentry

Words related to GENTILITY

gentilities12

Words that contain GENTILITY

ungentility15

How to use GENTILITY in a sentence

• In addition, he was well preserved and singularly handsome, besides having an air that set all pretending gentility at defiance.
• To have the feeling of gentility, it is not necessary to have been born gentle.
• To have had even a curate for an ancestor, or a connection, would have been something, some frail link with gentility.
• Everything bears the appearance of old-fashioned gentility which you know I always liked.
• They are in perfect harmony with the condition of weakened, but not impoverished, gentility.
• However, this too was laughed away, and the pursuit of gentility went on as rigorously as ever.
• Christian gentility assiduously cultivated on sound Church principles.
• From that direction of gentility Black Care had come.
• Jordan, handed down from their early twilight of gentility and also the victim of reverses, was the only member of her circle in whom she recognised an equal.
• The contrast so often drawn between Southern gentility and Northern thrift had a concrete basis in fact.
• Incapable of shewing delicacy and fine breeding in herself, she spoils her harmless children by converting them into specimens of the gentility of the family.
• The house in Evelina Road was no mere haunt of quiet gentility.
• The scene is occasionally varied by the appearance of a beggar-woman, got up in great decency, and with a wonderful air of pinched and faded gentility.
• He longed only to establish his gentility in the eyes of those three proud gentlemen.
• The boarding-house is generally a cast-off mansion of gentility.
• Slave-catching was the test, at once, of patriotism and gentility, while sympathy for the wretched fugitive was the mark of vulgar fanaticism.
• This youth differed from the original Itzig only by a species of shabby gentility in his appearance.
• The affair was in the hands of a committee, by whom invitations were sent to most people in the county who had any claims to gentility.
• He could pay his subscription, which was really a sort of gentility tax, the failure to meet which would merely forfeit future invitations, and remain at home.
• Gentility really enjoys in them a certain right to be treated gently.
• He went farther than this in some instances, and expressly implied that blood and birth were necessary to gentility.
• What harm is there in that? My heart is sick, my soul is pained, with this empty gentility, this genteel nothingness.
• The houses are old, but they have a look of gracious gentility that speaks of ease and plenty.
• Connected with this phase of the subject is a consideration of those who are worried lest in word or action, they fail in gentility.
• It may be that you, for all your birth, have neither the instincts nor the intellect to preserve the gentility your parents made for you.
• It soon became famous, and was recited by Henderson, a popular actor, on the stage, though, as its gentility was doubtful, its author withheld his name.
• The impression is not that of gray antiquity, but of stable and time-honored gentility, still as vital as ever.
• Weston was a native of Highbury, and born of a respectable family, which for the last two or three generations had been rising into gentility and property.
• On the same side is a green-house between two bay windows, the whole arrangement having a wonderful air of gentility and culture.
• He must be sufficiently wealthy to keep up a good position, while recognising the fact that money has nothing to do with true gentility.

Similar words containing GENTIL without suffix ity

gentil7 gentile8 gentiles9 gentilic11 gentilise10 gentilish13 gentilism12 gentilize19 gentilesse11 gentilised12 gentilises11 gentilisms13 gentilized21 gentilizes20 gentilesses12 gentilhomme19 gentilising13 gentilitial12 gentilitian12 gentilities12 gentilizing22 ungentility15 gentilitious13 gentilshommes21 ungentilities14

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