gentilesse

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Emerson was very fond of the passage on "gentilesse" in Chaucer's Wife of Bath's Tale Footnote 379: Feudal Ages.

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  1. noun Archaic Refinement and courtesy resulting from good breeding.

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  1. Middle English, from Old French, from gentil, noble; see gentle.

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  1. Also gentlesse; from Middle English gentilesse, from Old French gentilesse, gentry, gentility, nobility, plural gentilesses, pretty conceits, devices, = French gentilesse (= Provencal Spanish Portuguese gentileza = Italian gentilezza, from gentile, gentle, noble, etc.): see gentle. Gentrice and gentry, q. v., are other forms of the same word.
 

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