Meanings
noungentlesse (uncountable)
- obsoleteuncountablegentilesse; gentleness
The savage man, that never till this hour/Did taste of pity, neither gentlesse knew
1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto IV”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC
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