gentleship en · NOUN
Etymology
From gentle + -ship.
Meanings
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(obsolete, uncountable) The deportment or conduct of a gentleman.
men will […]have more gentleship in their hat than in their head
a. 1569 (date written), Roger Ascham, edited by Margaret Ascham, The Scholemaster: Or Plaine and Perfite Way of Teaching Children, to Vnderstand, Write, and Speake, the Latin Tong, […], London: […] John Daye, […], published 1570, →OCLC: