Definition of "gentlehood" [gentlehood]

• Good breeding; the state of being of good birth. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "That I am marked with the hall-mark of gentlehood there is no discussion ... unless either of you care to discuss the matter now ..."
• "He grieved bitterly over his own ill-doings, and knew well what changes gentlehood would have demanded from him."
• "A distorted habit of mind and the incredible difficulties of communication in the remote West during the first half of the nineteenth century had gradually caused James Ruan to sink his gentlehood in a wilful boorishness that left him a fierce pride of race and almost feudal powers, but the tastes and habits of his own labourers."