gentility Maksud & Definisi

Contoh gentility

• These, in turn, are usefully understood as expressing the semantic resonances of ' politeness ', namely, a concern with form, sociability, improvement, worldliness, and gentility.

• Her family was one of those whose claim to gentility was supported by limited real property combined with the noninheritable profits of office.%!

• Linked to the growth of urban gentility was the transformation of these four towns into centres of consumption.

• At times, the dualism is effective, as with the discussion of gentility and its links with the consumption of calicoes and silks.

• Her indifference to the question of gentility is surprising, particularly when considering many of the vitriolic contemporary opinions about women's work.

• It is true that the complex of values that underlay the new discourse of gentility centered on male behavior, as in the original chivalric ideal.

• Noble, doing his best to give the scene a veneer of gentility, could not hide the vile reality.

• The language and tone of instructional books about wax flower modelling highlight the gentility and respectability of modelling and looking at wax flowers.