Definition of "gentlemanhood" [gen•tle•man•hood]

• The qualities or condition of a gentleman. (noun)

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• "There have been not a few fine English gentlemen and ladies of this sort; who patronised the poor without ever relieving them, who called out “Amen!” at church as loud as the clerk; who went through all the forms of piety, and discharged all the etiquette of old English gentlemanhood; who bought virtue a bargain, as it were, and had no doubt they were honouring her by the purchase."
• "The Major would not hear of a year passing before this ceremony of gentlemanhood was gone through."
• "Robert put too much trust in his manly beauty and native gentlemanhood."