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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
gentility /dʒɛnˈtɪlɪti/

▶noun socially superior or genteel character or behaviour.

– origin ME (in the sense ‘honourable birth’): from OFr. gentilite, from gentil (see gentle1).

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She was known for her gentility
the decay of human 'sensibility' from false gentility to genteel perversion.

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