English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]gentleship (uncountable)
- (obsolete) The deportment or conduct of a gentleman.
- a. 1569 (date written), Roger Ascham, edited by Margaret Ascham, The Scholemaster: Or Plaine and Perfite Way of Teaching Children, to Vnderstand, Write, and Speake, the Latin Tong,[…], London: […] John Daye,[…], published 1570, →OCLC:
- men will […]have more gentleship in their hat than in their head
References
[edit]- “gentleship”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
