KJV Dictionary - genteel
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GENTEEL
GENTEE'L, a. L. gentilis, from gens, race, stock, family, and with the sense of noble or at least respectable birth,as we use birth and family.
1. Polite; well bred; easy and graceful in manners or behavior; having the manners of well bred people; as genteel company; genteel guests.
2. Polite; easy and graceful; becoming well bred persons; as genteel manners or behavior; a genteel address.
3. Graceful in mein or form; elegant; as the lady has a genteel person.
4. Elegantly dressed.
5. Decorous; refined; free from any thing low or vulgar; as genteel comedy.
Definition from Webster's American Dictionary of the English Language, 1828.
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