Definitions
Wiktionary
- n. UK, idiomatic, archaic The upper class, the high society, the gentry; the people of quality.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. those of high rank or station, as distinguished from
the masses , or common people; the nobility; the gentry.
Etymologies
- From quality (high social position). (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Clearly, the Indonesian family-planning program officials were superenthusiasts for Norplant adoption, rather than showing concern for improving the quality of contraceptive services for their clients.”
“REally the only way to know for sure if the quality and everything is good is go to a store that has this model in stock and compare it to everything else, then you'll know.”
“This case illustration demonstrates the tradeoff between the number of adopters of an innovation versus the quality of the adoption-decisions, a choice ultimately faced by every change agent and every change agency.”
“There are also several ‘amateur’ (in the sense that they are unfunded, but by no means in respect of the quality of their scholarship) research organizations, such as the Centre for Templar Studies and Research, run by Georges Kiess in Espéraza (Aude), which have put the academics to shame.”
“His constitutional and the quality of his cellar: de Leon, 100 and 188; McCoan, 20.”
“A somewhat similar strategy of utilizing group influence to secure the adoption of family-planning methods in Indonesian villages suggests that while the rate of adoption increases, the quality of such adoption decisions is dubious and demands a high degree of change agent contact Tuladhar et al., 1998.”
“Veteran sportswriter Roger Kahn wondered if Martin was anti-Semitic; both Holtzman and another former Yankee, Ron Blomberg, were Jewish, and Martin had disliked both for reasons that seemed disconnected from the quality of their play.”
“Its the small touchesthe way you are greeted in the pro shop or segreteria, the arrangement and condition of the driving range and putting green, the quality of the turf on the fairway in front of you, the layout of the opening hole.”
“When Matt left the office about an hour later to head for the Beadle Mansion, he noticed that the quality of light was different.”
“… In a now famous letter to his brothers, Keats wrote that Shakespeare possessed the quality of a “Negative Capability, that is when man is capable of being in uncertainties, Mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact and reason.””
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