noun [U] (formal)
1 very good manners and behaviour; the fact of belonging to a high social class:
He took her hand with discreet gentility. * She thinks expensive clothes are a mark of gentility.
2 the fact of being quiet and old-fashioned:
the faded gentility of the town
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