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  • Gentile, genteel, and gentle all come from the Latin word gentilis.

    Informed Reader 2007

  • Though in the published version of De occulta philosophia he still values the purportedly ancient pre-Christian sages and the Cabalists and Neoplatonists, both De vanitate and the contemporaneous Dehortatio gentilis theologiae/A Warning Against Gentile Theology, show that he was aware of the possibility that their influence might be harmful.

    Loss of Faith 2009

  • Projected logging levels in old-growth systems are expected to result in significant population declines in several species, including northern goshawk (Accipiter gentilis laingi), Alexander Archipelago wolf (Canis lupus ligoni), marten (Martes americana), northern flying squirrel (Glaucomys sabrinus), brown bear, and some neotropical and resident birds.

    Northern Pacific coastal forests 2008

  • Here, too, we learned the reason why the falcons and the hawks (Falco milvus, F. gentilis, etc.) are so fierce and so well-fed.

    The Land of Midian 2003

  • The original derivation of the word is from the Latin _gentilis_, belonging to a tribe or _gens_; and in its first signification it applies to those of noble descent or family; but it has come to mean something far wider, and something which every man, however humble, may be -- a man of high courtesy and refinement, to whom dishonor is hateful.

    Life and Conduct J. Cameron Lees

  • Gentility had come to imply not only heathendom, ( "_gentilis est qui in Christum non credit_,") but liberal breeding.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 77, March, 1864 Various

  • * Quando id quod in honore alicuius idoli ab ethnicis agitur [sc. the theatrical spectacles] a fidelibus christianis spectaculo frequentatur, et idololatria gentilis asseritur et in contumeliam dei religio vera et divina calcatur: [1722] 1

    The Mission and Expansion of Christianity in the First Three Centuries 1851-1930 1908

  • “Quando id quod in honore alicuius idoli ab ethnicis agitur [sc. the theatrical spectacles] a fidelibus christianis spectaculo frequentatur, et idololatria gentilis asseritur et in contumeliam dei religio vera et divina calcatur” (“Since whatever is performed by pagans in honor of any idol is attended by faithful Christians in the public spectacles, and thus pagan idolatry is maintained, whilst the true and divine religion is trodden under foot in contempt of God”).

    The Mission and Expansion of Christianity in the First Three Centuries 1851-1930 1908

  • [Footnote 255: 'Quam etiam ferocitas gentilis expavit.'] 'Prudently did he follow the common fortunes, in order that while fixedly bearing the Divine judgments he might with the more approbation find the Divine favour.

    The Letters of Cassiodorus Being A Condensed Translation Of The Variae Epistolae Of Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus Senator Senator Cassiodorus 1872

  • From the sense of the civilians, who consider gentilis as synonymous with ingenuus.

    History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 5 Edward Gibbon 1765

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