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- noun Plural form of
gentleness .
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Examples
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The first is, that the decencies and gentlenesses should never be lost sight of, as the practice of the decencies and gentlenesses is at all times compatible with independence of thought and action.
Lavengro 2004
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Who could be angry in the middle of such gentlenesses?
The Enchanted April 1922
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-- I've sat here in my shop at night, and looked round at my shelves, looked at all the brave books that house the hopes and gentlenesses and dreams of men and women, and wondered if they were all wrong, discredited, defeated.
The Haunted Bookshop 1918
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No doubt it is true that there is more rejoicing in heaven over one sinner repented than over all the saints who consistently remain holy, and the rare, sudden gentlenesses of arrogant people have infinitely more effect than the continual gentleness of gentle people.
The Magnificent Ambersons; illustrated by Arthur William Brown 1918
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No doubt it is true that there is more rejoicing in heaven over one sinner repented than over all the saints who consistently remain holy, and the rare, sudden gentlenesses of arrogant people have infinitely more effect than the continual gentleness of gentle people.
Chapter 7 1918
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Lord we are among the holy tendernesses, the majestic gentlenesses, the incorruptible love which forgives and is never denied.
The Epistles of St. Peter 1817-1893 1910
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One fact about him will perhaps bear emphasis; that with all his gentlenesses he was strong and firm and full of spirit.
Washington Irving Henry Walcott Boynton 1908
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No doubt it is true that there is more rejoicing in heaven over one sinner repented than over all the saints who consistently remain holy, and the rare, sudden gentlenesses of arrogant people have infinitely more effect than the continual gentleness of gentle people.
The Magnificent Ambersons Booth Tarkington 1907
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Who could be angry in the middle of such gentlenesses?
The Enchanted April Elizabeth von Arnim 1903
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By this time all the amenities and gentlenesses of the Southland had fallen away from the three people.
The Call of the Wild Jack London 1896
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