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Gentle [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. Well born; of a good family or respectable birth, though not noble; as the studies of noble and gentle youth; gentle blood.

2. Mild; meek; soft; bland; not rough, harsh or severe; as a gentle nature, temper or disposition; a gentle manner; a gentle address; a gentle voice. 1 Thessalonians 2:7 . 1 Thessalonians 2:7 .

3. Tame; peaceable; not wild, turbulent or refractory; as a gentle horse or beast.

4. Soothing; pacific.

5. Treating with mildness; not violent.

6. A gentle hand may lead the elephant with a hair.

Gentle [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. A gentleman.

2. A kind of worm.

Gentle [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

To make genteel; to raise from the vulgar.

Gentle [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. One well born; a gentleman.

2. A trained falcon. See Falcon-gentil.

3. A dipterous larva used as fish bait.

Gentle [Superlative] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. Well-born; of a good family or respectable birth, though not noble.

2. Quiet and refined in manners; not rough, harsh, or stern; mild; meek; bland; amiable; tender; as, a gentle nature, temper, or disposition; a gentle manner; a gentle address; a gentle voice.

3. A compellative of respect, consideration, or conciliation; as, gentle reader.

4. Not wild, turbulent, or refractory; quiet and docile; tame; peaceable; as, a gentle horse.

5. Soft; not violent or rough; not strong, loud, or disturbing; easy; soothing; pacific; as, a gentle touch; a gentle gallop .

Gentle [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. To make genteel; to raise from the vulgar; to ennoble.

2. To make smooth, cozy, or agreeable.

3. To make kind and docile, as a horse.

Gentle-hearted [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Having a kind or gentle disposition.

Gentlefolk [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Persons of good breeding and family. It is now used only in the plural, gentlefolks, and this use is vulgar.

Gentlefolk [Noun plural] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Alt. of Gentlefolks

Gentlefolks [Noun plural] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Persons of gentle or good family and breeding.

Gentleman [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. In its most extensive sense, in Great Britain, every man above the rank of yeomen, comprehending noblemen. In a more limited sense, a man, who without a title, bears a coat of arms, or whose ancestors have been freemen. In this sense, gentlemen hold a middle rank between the nobility and yeomanry.

2. In the United States, where titles and distinctions of rank do not exist, the term is applied to men of education and of good breeding, of every occupation. Indeed this is also the popular practice in Great Britain. Hence,

3. A man of good breeding, politeness, and civil manners, as distinguished from the vulgar and clownish.

4. A plowman on his legs is higher than a gentleman on his knees.

5. A term of complaisance. In the plural, the appellation by which men are addressed in popular assemblies, whatever may be their condition or character.

6. In Great Britain, the servant of a man of rank, who attends his person.

Gentleman [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. A man well born; one of good family; one above the condition of a yeoman.

2. One of gentle or refined manners; a well-bred man.

3. One who bears arms, but has no title.

4. The servant of a man of rank.

5. A man, irrespective of condition; -- used esp. in the plural (= citizens; people), in addressing men in popular assemblies, etc.

Gentlemanhood [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

The qualities or condition of a gentleman.

Gentlemanlike [\N] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. GEN'TLEMANLIKE

2. GEN'TLEMANLINESS, noun Behavior of a well bred man.

Gentlemanlike [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Alt. of Gentlemanly

Gentlemanliness [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

The state of being gentlemanly; gentlemanly conduct or manners.

Gentlemanly [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. Pertaining to or becoming a gentleman, or a man of good family and breeding; polite; complaisant; as gentlemanly manners.

2. Like a man of birth and good breeding; as a gentlemanly officer.

Gentlemanly [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Of, pertaining to, resembling, or becoming, a gentleman; well-behaved; courteous; polite.

Gentlemanship [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

The carriage or quality of a gentleman.

Gentlemen [Plural] Webster's Dictionary 1913

of Gentleman

Gentleness [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. Dignity of birth. [Little used.]

2. Genteel behavior.

3. Softness of manners; mildness of temper; sweetness of disposition; meekness.

4. The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, long suffering, gentleness goodness, faith. Galatians 5:22 .

5. Kindness; benevolence.

6. Tenderness; mild treatment.

Gentleness [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

The quality or state of being gentle, well-born, mild, benevolent, docile, etc.; gentility; softness of manners, disposition, etc.; mildness.

Gentleship [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

The deportment of a gentleman.

Gentleship [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

The deportment or conduct of a gentleman.

Gentlesse [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Gentilesse; gentleness.

Gentlewoman [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. A woman of good family or of good breeding; a woman above the vulgar.

2. A woman who waits about the person of one of high rank.

3. A term of civility to a female, sometimes ironical.

Gentlewoman [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. A woman of good family or of good breeding; a woman above the vulgar.

2. A woman who attends a lady of high rank.

Gentlewomen [Plural] Webster's Dictionary 1913

of Gentlewoman

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Deuteronomy 28:54

So that the man that is tender among you, and very delicate, his eye shall be evil toward his brother, and toward the wife of his bosom, and toward the remnant of his children which he shall leave:

The most gentle and refined man among you will begrudge his brother, the wife he embraces, and the rest of his children who have survived,

Deuteronomy 28:56

The tender and delicate woman among you, which would not adventure to set the sole of her foot upon the ground for delicateness and tenderness, her eye shall be evil toward the husband of her bosom, and toward her son, and toward her daughter,

The most gentle and refined woman among you, so gentle and refined she would not venture to set the sole of her foot on the ground, will begrudge the husband she embraces and her son and daughter

Deuteronomy 32:2

My doctrine shall drop as the rain, my speech shall distil as the dew, as the small rain upon the tender herb, and as the showers upon the grass:

Let my teaching fall like rain and my speech settle like dew, like gentle rain on new grass, like showers on tender plants.

2 Samuel 22:36

Thou hast also given me the shield of thy salvation: and thy gentleness hath made me great.

You have given me Your shield of salvation, and Your gentleness exalts me.

Job 37:6

For he saith to the snow, Be thou on the earth; likewise to the small rain, and to the great rain of his strength.

For He says to the snow, ‘Fall on the earth,’ and to the gentle rain, ‘Pour out a mighty downpour.’

Psalms 18:35

Thou hast also given me the shield of thy salvation: and thy right hand hath holden me up, and thy gentleness hath made me great.

You have given me Your shield of salvation; Your right hand upholds me, and Your gentleness exalts me.

Proverbs 15:1

A soft answer turneth away wrath: but grievous words stir up anger.

A gentle answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger.

Proverbs 25:15

By long forbearing is a prince persuaded, and a soft tongue breaketh the bone.

Through patience a ruler can be persuaded, and a gentle tongue can break a bone.

Jeremiah 11:19

But I was like a lamb or an ox that is brought to the slaughter; and I knew not that they had devised devices against me, saying, Let us destroy the tree with the fruit thereof, and let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be no more remembered.

For I was like a gentle lamb led to slaughter; I did not know that they had plotted against me: “Let us destroy the tree with its fruit; let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be remembered no more.”

Matthew 11:29

Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls.

Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me; for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.

Matthew 21:5

Tell ye the daughter of Sion, Behold, thy King cometh unto thee, meek, and sitting upon an ass, and a colt the foal of an ass.

“Say to the Daughter of Zion, ‘See, your King comes to you, gentle and riding on a donkey, on a colt, the foal of a donkey.’”

Acts 27:13

And when the south wind blew softly, supposing that they had obtained their purpose, loosing thence, they sailed close by Crete.

When a gentle south wind began to blow, they thought they had their opportunity. So they weighed anchor and sailed along, hugging the coast of Crete.

1 Corinthians 4:21

What will ye? shall I come unto you with a rod, or in love, and in the spirit of meekness?

Which do you prefer? Shall I come to you with a rod, or in love and with a gentle spirit?

2 Corinthians 10:1

Now I Paul myself beseech you by the meekness and gentleness of Christ, who in presence am base among you, but being absent am bold toward you:

Now by the mildness and gentleness of Christ, I appeal to you—I, Paul, who am humble when face to face with you, but bold when away.

Galatians 5:22

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,

Galatians 5:23

Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.

gentleness, and self-control. Against such things there is no law.

Galatians 6:1

Brethren, if a man be overtaken in a fault, ye which are spiritual, restore such an one in the spirit of meekness; considering thyself, lest thou also be tempted.

Brothers, if someone is caught in a trespass, you who are spiritual should restore him with a spirit of gentleness. But watch yourself, or you also may be tempted.

Ephesians 4:2

With all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in love;

with all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love,

Philippians 4:5

Let your moderation be known unto all men. The Lord is at hand.

Let your gentleness be apparent to all. The Lord is near.

Colossians 3:12

Put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, longsuffering;

Therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, clothe yourselves with hearts of compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness, and patience.