gentlemanism

This brief article about William Morris reducing salaries for assistants to $9.50 an hour hints at the benefits of gentlemanism.

Nick Mamatas' Journal nihilistic_kid 2009

Having freed himself from fine-gentlemanism, he had quite unconsciously fallen the more easily a prey to fine-ladyism; all his conservatism had gone into that, as a man, forced to give up his garden, might cherish one lovely potted plant.

The Happiest Time of Their Lives Alice Duer Miller 1908

Queen Sarah was right, as she often was when condemnation was called for: and however amusing a companion the dramatist may have been, he was not a man to respect, for he had not only the common vices of his age, but added to them a foppish vanity, toadyism, and fine gentlemanism (to coin a most necessary word), which we scarcely expect to meet with in a man who sets up for a satirist.

The Wits and Beaux of Society Volume 1 Philip Wharton 1847