Definition of "gentlemanliness" [gen•tle•man•li•ness]

• Gentlemanly behaviour, of or pertaining to being a gentleman (noun)

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• "Old Aristotle, long ago, laboured to define wherein consisted the trait known as gentlemanliness; others will have puzzled since his day, for we have bedaubed ourselves with so thick a coating of manner and phrase that many a cad will pass for something better."
• "Of all Ronald Reagan's innate qualities, his gentlemanliness was the last to atrophy."
• "Then your remark about Brown is sort of political "gentlemanliness" ;"