gentleman-like

comparative more gentleman-like · superlative most gentleman-like

1. alternativeAlternative form of gentlemanlike.

   […] and ſo wee wept: and there was the firſt Gentleman-like teares that euer we ſhed.

   c. 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Winters Tale”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene ii], page 301, column 2

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   Deuinitie (the Heauen of all Artes) for a while drew his thoughts vnto it, but shortly after the world the flesh and the diuell with-drewe him from that, and needes he would be of a more Gentleman-like lustie cut; whereupon hee fell to morrall Epistling and Poetrie.

   1596, Thomas Nashe, “The life and godly education from his childhood of that thrice famous clarke, and morthie Orator and Poet Gabriell Haruey”, in Have with You to Saffron-Walden, London: John Danter

   I proteſt, it is to me the moſt difficult of things to write to one of your female geniuſes—there is a certain degree of cleverality (if I may ſo call it), an eaſy kind of derangement of periods, a gentleman-like—faſhionable—careleſs—ſee-ſaw of dialogue—which I know no more of than you do of cruelty.

   1778 May 14, Ignatius Sancho, “Letter LXII. To Miss C⸻.”, in Letters of the Late Ignatius Sancho, an African. […], volume I, London: […] J. Nichols: And sold by J. Dodsley, […], published 1782, pages 195–196

   “You are mistaken, Mr. Darcy, if you suppose that the mode of your declaration affected me in any other way, than as it spared me the concern which I might have felt in refusing you, had you behaved in a more gentleman-like manner.”

   1813 January 27, [Jane Austen], chapter XI, in Pride and Prejudice: […], volume II, London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, page 132